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Self-based Anaphora in Early Modern English.
Title:
Self-based Anaphora in Early Modern English.
Author:
Kucelman, Ewa.
ISBN:
9783653034202
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (191 pages)
Series:
Studies in Language, Culture and Society ; v.1

Studies in Language, Culture and Society
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: SELF pronouns as bound anaphors -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Basic assumptions -- 1.2.1 Locality: Binding domains -- 1.2.2 The command requirement -- 1.3 Some challenges to the Standard Binding Theory -- 1.3.1 Non-complementary environments -- 1.3.2 Long distance anaphora -- 1.4 Binding conditions as restrictions on reflexive predicates -- 1.5. Syntactic and semantic predicates -- 1.6 Some problems with coindexation -- 1.7 Conclusions -- 2: Pragmatic approaches to SELF pronouns -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Pragmatic interpretation of SELF pronouns -- 2.3 Non-local antecedent-anaphor relationships -- 2.3.1 Logophoric interpretation of anaphors -- 2.3.2 Reflexives as viewpoint markers -- 2.3.3 Viewpoint interpretation of picture nouns -- 2.3.4 SELF pronouns as intensives -- 2.3.4.1 The form of the intensive SELF pronoun and its relationship with other intensives -- 2.3.4.2 Factors licensing the use of intensive pronouns -- 2.4 The relationship between intensives and reflexives -- 2.5. Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Some remarks on the history of SELF pronouns -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Types of reflexive markers -- 3.2 The historical development of SELF reflexives -- 3.2.1. Old English -- 3.2.2 Middle English -- 3.2.2.1 The development of the self-compound -- 3.2.2.2 The choice of a reflexive strategy -- 3.2.3 Early Modern English and later -- 3.2.4. Foreign influences and rivalling strategies -- 3.3. Accounts of the grammaticalization of reflexive SELF forms -- 3.3.1 van Gelderen's account -- 3.3.2 Keenan's account -- 3.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Bound reflexive pronouns in Early Modern English -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Bound Contexts -- 4.3 Discussion -- 4.3.1 Reflexivity markers -- 4.3.2. Verbs followed by both simple and SELF pronouns.

4.3.2.1 Verbs showing intransitivization in later ModE -- 4.3.2.2 Verbs which did not intransitivize -- 4.3.3 The relationship between the person feature of the pronoun and the choice of a reflexive pronoun -- 4.3.4 Other factors contributing to the choice of the reflexive pronoun -- 4.3.4.1 The relationship between the semantic class of verb and the choice of the reflexive pronoun -- 4.3.4.1.1 Verbs of motion and posture -- 4.3.4.1.2 Verbs of psychological events -- 4.3.4.1.3 Verbs of social behaviour -- 4.3.4.1.4 Verbs of self-care and equipment -- 4.3.4.2 Contrastive uses of SELF pronouns -- 4.3.5 The use of SELF pronouns in bound contexts: Summary -- 4.4 Reflexive pronouns in Prepositional Phrases -- 4.4.1 Complement PPs -- 4.4.2 Reflexive pronouns in adjunct PPs -- 4.4.3 Reflexive pronouns in PPs: Summary -- Chapter 5: Emphatic SELF pronouns in Early Modern English -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Emphatic SELF pronouns in our corpus -- 5.2.1 Appositive SELF pronouns -- 5.2.1.1 Emphatic SELF with personal antecedents -- 5.2.1.2 Emphatic SELF with abstract antecedents -- 5.2.1.3 Emphatic pronouns with concrete inanimate nouns as antecedents -- 5.2.1.4 Appositive SELF pronouns with pronominal antecedents -- 5.2.2 Shifted emphatic SELF pronouns -- 5.2.2.1 The position of shifted SELF pronouns in our corpus -- 5.2.2.2 Shifted SELF pronouns with nominal and pronominal antecedents -- 5.2.3 Locally free SELF pronouns -- 5.2.3.1 Locally free SELF pronouns in numbers -- 5.2.3.2 The use of locally free SELF pronouns -- 5.3 Conclusions -- Chapter 6: Conclusions -- 6.1 SELF pronouns in bound contexts -- 6.2 Reflexive pronouns in Prepositional Phrases -- 6.3 Emphatic SELF pronouns -- 6.4 Final remarks, interpretational problems and further research -- References.
Abstract:
This book is a corpus-based study which aims to describe the class of self-pronouns as used in the Early Modern English period. Self-pronouns are presented as a multi-functional class, with two main functions, as emphatic forms and as reflexive markers. The emphatic function is seen as a continuation of an earlier state of affairs, whereas the reflexive function is described as a new, emerging one. As reflexive markers, self-pronouns in Early Modern English compete with personal pronouns. Therefore the book seeks to present the conditions of their distribution ranging from configurational and thematic through discursive to pragmatic factors involved in the choice of the reflexive strategy.
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