A Typology of the Path of Deictic Motion Verbs as Path-Conflating Verbs: The Entailment of Arrival and the Deictic Center

Nakazawa, Tsuneko

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“…The set of licit perspective holders is a point of crosslinguistic variation: see(Gathercole, 1987) and(Nakazawa, 2007;Nakazawa, 2009) for cross-linguistic work on the topic.…”

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Guess Who’s Coming (and Who’s Going): Bringing Perspective to the Rational Speech Acts Framework

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Dillon²

2019

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“…The set of licit perspective holders is a point of crosslinguistic variation: see(Gathercole, 1987) and(Nakazawa, 2007;Nakazawa, 2009) for cross-linguistic work on the topic.…”

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Guess Who’s Coming (and Who’s Going): Bringing Perspective to the Rational Speech Acts Framework

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2019

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“…Although perspectival motion verbs are the subject of significant cross-linguistic comparative work (Barlew, 2017 ; Gathercole, 1987 ; Nakazawa, 2007 , 2009 ; Wilkins & Hill, 1995 ), there is relatively little experimental work on them. This gap leaves open many questions about their usage, and relates to models of grammatical perspective-taking.…”

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Grammatical Perspective-Taking in Comprehension and Production

Anderson

Dillon

2023

Open Mind

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Language use in conversation requires conversation partners to consider each other’s points-of-view, or perspectives. A large body of work has explored how conversation partners take into account differences in knowledge states when choosing referring expressions. This paper explores how well findings from perspective-taking in reference generalize to a relatively understudied domain of perspective: the processing of grammatical perspectival expressions like the motion verbs come and go in English. We re-visit findings from perspective-taking in reference that conversation participants are subject to egocentric biases: they are biased towards their own perspectives. Drawing on theoretical proposals for grammatical perspective-taking and prior experimental studies of perspective-taking in reference, we compare two models of grammatical perspective-taking: a serial anchoring-and-adjustment model, and a simultaneous integration model. We test their differing predictions in a series of comprehension and production experiments using the perspectival motion verbs come and go as a case study. While our comprehension studies suggest that listeners reason simultaneously over multiple perspectives, as in the simultaneous integration model, our production findings are more mixed: we find support for only one of the simultaneous integration model’s two key predictions. More generally, our findings suggest a role for egocentric bias in production for grammatical perspective-taking as well as when choosing referring expressions.

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“…Ir ("to go") differs from venir in that it denotes movement toward a goal and away from e.g., the speaker (Richardson, 1996;Lewandowski, 2007). These contrasts between perspectival restrictions on the use of come are observed not only in English and Spanish, but across a range of the world's languages, as illustrated by Gathercole (1978), Wilkins and Hill (1995), Lewandowski (2007), Nakazawa (2007Nakazawa ( , 2009, and the numerous references cited in these papers.…”

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Perspective-Taking With Deictic Motion Verbs in Spanish: What We Learn About Semantics and the Lexicon From Heritage Child Speakers and Adults

2021

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In English, deictic verbs of motion, such as come can encode the perspective of the speaker, or another individual, such as the addressee or a narrative protagonist, at a salient reference time and location, in the form of an indexical presupposition. By contrast, Spanish has been claimed to have stricter requirements on licensing conditions for venir (“to come”), only allowing speaker perspective. An open question is how a bilingual learner acquiring both English and Spanish reconciles these diverging language-specific restrictions. We face this question head on by investigating narrative productions of young Spanish-English bilingual heritage speakers of Spanish, in comparison to English monolingual and Spanish dominant adults and children. We find that the young heritage speakers produce venir in linguistic contexts where most Spanish adult speakers do not, but where English monolingual speakers do, and also resemble those of young monolingual Spanish speakers of at least one other Spanish dialect, leading us to generate two mutually-exclusive hypotheses: (a) the encoding of speaker perspective in the young heritage children is cross-linguistically influenced by the more flexible and dominant language (English), resulting in a wider range of productions by these malleable young speakers than the Spanish grammar actually allows, or (b) the young Spanish speakers are exhibiting productions that are in fact licensed in the grammar, but which are pruned away in the adult productions, being supplanted by other forms as the lexicon is enriched. Given independent evidence of the heritage speakers' robust Spanish linguistic competence, we turn to systematically-collected acceptability judgments of three dialectal varieties of monolingual adult Spanish speakers of the distribution of perspective-taking verbs, to assess their competence and adjudicate between (a) and (b). We find that adults accept venir in contexts in which they do not produce it, leading us to argue that (a) venir is not obligatorily speaker-oriented in Spanish, as has been claimed, (b) adults may not produce venir in these contexts because they instead select more specific motion verbs, and (c) for heritage bilingual children, the more dominant language (English) may support the grammatically licensed but lexically-constrained productions in Spanish.

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A Typology of the Path of Deictic Motion Verbs as Path-Conflating Verbs: The Entailment of Arrival and the Deictic Center

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

Guess Who’s Coming (and Who’s Going): Bringing Perspective to the Rational Speech Acts Framework

Guess Who’s Coming (and Who’s Going): Bringing Perspective to the Rational Speech Acts Framework

Grammatical Perspective-Taking in Comprehension and Production

Perspective-Taking With Deictic Motion Verbs in Spanish: What We Learn About Semantics and the Lexicon From Heritage Child Speakers and Adults

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