Self Intensification and Focus Interpretation

Standardly (Safir, 2004), the “complex reflexive'' SIG+SELF in Dutch or Scandinavian is treated as a special species of anaphora, stronger than SIG alone. This approach has a number of disadvantages, descriptive and theoretical. Theoretically, it is desirable to treat SELF the same as when...

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Main Author: Kjell Johan Sæbø
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo 2009-01-01
Series:Oslo Studies in Language
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/8