2021
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-020-09501-y
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Proxy control

Abstract: The control dependency in grammar is conventionally distinguished into two classes: exhaustive (i→i) and non-exhaustive (i→i + (j)). Here, we show that, in languages like German and Italian, some speakers allow a new kind of “proxy control” which differs from both, such that, for a controller i, and a controllee j, j = proxy(i). The proxy function picks out a set of individuals that is discourse-pragmatically related to i. For such speakers, the German/Italian proxy control equivalent of the sentence: “Mariai … Show more

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“…Consider the following two examples in Italian and German, taken from Doliana and Sundaresan (2022) (henceforth, D&S).…”
Section: Proxy Controlmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Consider the following two examples in Italian and German, taken from Doliana and Sundaresan (2022) (henceforth, D&S).…”
Section: Proxy Controlmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, in Canal and Swain's communicative competence model, "social language competence" is difficult to distinguish from "grammatical competence," because properly understanding and expressing discourse in different social language environments must be inseparable from the role of grammatical competence [22]. Doliana et al put forward the definition of multimodal corpus: "a multimedia corpus based on "speech theory," which takes speech activities as the research object, extracts information and knowledge from original data as the means, and takes context model as the driving force, including language, sound, image, and action of the whole speech activities [23]. Kolkmann and Falkum proposed that the establishment of multimodal corpus provides new learning resources and tools for college students' oral English.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%