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Le 06 mars 2026 de 14:30 à 16:30false false
Lieu: Grand labo C228
Title: Are L1 and L2 acquisition guided by common underlying mechanisms? Evidence from disjunction and negation.
Abstract:
Person mismatches in logophoric domains
Many languages exhibit person features mismatches in attitudinal contexts. For instance, in some languages the embedded verb in complex clauses headed by an attitude verb seems to reflect person features that are not borne by the agreement controller. Although recent advances have been made in this domain (Deal 2020, Deal 2024), both the distribution and understanding of these mismatches are still poorly understood. Focusing on languages with distinct logophoric pronouns (LPs) in their paradigm (mostly West-African languages of the NIger-Congo and Nilotic families, such as Ewe or Yoruba), I argue that they should be given a separate treatment from other, apparently similar surface phenomena such as shifted indexicals (Anand and Nevins 2004, Anand 2006, Deal 2020) or monstrous agreement (Deal 2020, Messick 2023, Deal 2024). The present account allows us to understand the apparent mismatches and reconsider the view that LPs are `outliers' in a given paradigm, making use of conservative, property-denoting person features (Harbour 2006, Sauerland and Bobaljik 2022).
Title: Are L1 and L2 acquisition guided by common underlying mechanisms? Evidence from disjunction and negation.
Abstract:
Person mismatches in logophoric domains
Many languages exhibit person features mismatches in attitudinal contexts. For instance, in some languages the embedded verb in complex clauses headed by an attitude verb seems to reflect person features that are not borne by the agreement controller. Although recent advances have been made in this domain (Deal 2020, Deal 2024), both the distribution and understanding of these mismatches are still poorly understood. Focusing on languages with distinct logophoric pronouns (LPs) in their paradigm (mostly West-African languages of the NIger-Congo and Nilotic families, such as Ewe or Yoruba), I argue that they should be given a separate treatment from other, apparently similar surface phenomena such as shifted indexicals (Anand and Nevins 2004, Anand 2006, Deal 2020) or monstrous agreement (Deal 2020, Messick 2023, Deal 2024). The present account allows us to understand the apparent mismatches and reconsider the view that LPs are `outliers' in a given paradigm, making use of conservative, property-denoting person features (Harbour 2006, Sauerland and Bobaljik 2022).
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