2012
DOI: 10.1007/s10828-012-9047-6
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Impersonal indexicals: one, you, man, and du

Abstract: Impersonal pronouns are pervasive in the world's languages; boundaries between personal and impersonal paradigms are porous. Thus, in many languages, 2 nd -person pronouns can be impersonal (i), and vary under the influence of quantificational adverbs like always and rarely.(i) In those days, you always/usually/rarely lived to be 60.Additionally, dedicated impersonal pronouns may have a special association with the speaker, as argued for English one (Safir 2004;Moltmann 2006Moltmann , 2010 and German man (Krat… Show more

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“…The dotted arrow in (11) indicates the relational link between the addressee a and another referent a 0 with which a is invited to identify. Another type of a 'rich lexical semantics' analysis for second person forms has been proposed by Malamud (2012) (adopting some ideas from Moltmann, 2010 on impersonal one). Unlike Zobel (2010), who regards generalizing uses of you as a special case of a lexical-semantic interpretation which can also be assumed for canonical (indexical) uses, Malamud (2012:20) assumes that impersonal you and other pronouns of its type ''contain features that introduce two elements into the semantics of these pronouns: an indexical component, and an indefinite-like variable'' (Malamud, 2012:12).…”
Section: Lexicalist Analyses Of the Second Person Impersonally Usedmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The dotted arrow in (11) indicates the relational link between the addressee a and another referent a 0 with which a is invited to identify. Another type of a 'rich lexical semantics' analysis for second person forms has been proposed by Malamud (2012) (adopting some ideas from Moltmann, 2010 on impersonal one). Unlike Zobel (2010), who regards generalizing uses of you as a special case of a lexical-semantic interpretation which can also be assumed for canonical (indexical) uses, Malamud (2012:20) assumes that impersonal you and other pronouns of its type ''contain features that introduce two elements into the semantics of these pronouns: an indexical component, and an indefinite-like variable'' (Malamud, 2012:12).…”
Section: Lexicalist Analyses Of the Second Person Impersonally Usedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The feature [arb] ''introduces a new (bare) variable into the interpretation'' (Malamud, 2012:20). Malamud's (2012) analysis requires specific interpretive mechanisms to reconcile mismatching feature combinations (coercion), which we will not discuss in any detail here. Suffice it to say that impersonal you is characterized by a set of features which are not assumed for canonical you, and is thus regarded as differing lexically from the latter.…”
Section: Lexicalist Analyses Of the Second Person Impersonally Usedmentioning
confidence: 99%
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