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  • 标题:Effects of perspective-taking on pronominal reference to humans and animals: Logophoricity in Finnish
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  • 作者:Elsi Kaiser
  • 期刊名称:Open Linguistics
  • 电子版ISSN:2300-9969
  • 出版年度:2018
  • 卷号:4
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:630-656
  • DOI:10.1515/opli-2018-0031
  • 出版社:Walter de Gruyter GmbH
  • 摘要:

    This paper investigates the logophoric pronoun system of Finnish, with a focus on reference to animals, to further our understanding of the linguistic representation of non-human animals, how perspective-taking is signaled linguistically, and how this relates to features such as [+/-HUMAN]. In contexts where animals are grammatically [-HUMAN] but conceptualized as the perspectival center (whose thoughts, speech or mental state is being reported), can they be referred to with logophoric pronouns? Colloquial Finnish is claimed to have a logophoric pronoun which has the same form as the human-referring pronoun of standard Finnish, han (she/he). This allows us to test whether a pronoun that may at first blush seem featurally specified to seek [+HUMAN] referents can be used for [-HUMAN] referents when they are logophoric. I used corpus data to compare the claim that han is logophoric in both standard and colloquial Finnish vs. the claim that the two registers have different logophoric systems. I argue for a unified system where han is logophoric in both registers, and moreover can be used for logophoric [-HUMAN] referents in both colloquial and standard Finnish. Thus, on its logophoric use, han does not require its referent to be [+HUMAN].

  • 关键词:Finnish ; logophoric pronouns ; logophoricity ; anti-logophoricity ; animacy ; non-human animals ; perspective-taking ; corpus
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