The ZPG Letter: Subject, Definiteness, and Information-status – Prince (1998) Prince gives an analysis of Subject/Nonsubject NPs in a letter. She annotates the letter for Hearer Old/New, Discourse Old/New, Inferable, Pronominal/Nonpronominal, and Definiteness. She shows that the only reliable predictor of Subject/Nonsubject was Discourse Old/New. She argues we could count saliency as another factor if […]
Decisions, Dynamics, and the Japanese Particle yo – Christopher Davis (2009) Uses dynamic semantics to describe the behavior Japanese sentence final particle yo used with assertions, imperatives and questions. Argues that yo adds a presupposition that the post update context is one in which the addressee’s decision problem is solved. A separate tone morpheme which […]
Running Down Clock – Ramscar, Matlock & Dye (200?) Series of experiments show influence of fictive motion on conceptions of time. Tries to link fictive, figurative and literal word use to joint underlying conception. Use of words in different ways causes the use of same background information and cognitive processes. DOES NOT explain why the […]