Silent anchors: the case for unpronounced indexicality

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1 LLING - Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes

Diagnostics for indexicality reveal that some constituents exhibit an indexical behavior that goes beyond that of any inherently indexical words they contain. I suggest that this is because unpronounced indexicals can occupy world argument positions associated with redicates.

Domaines: Linguistique

Orin Percus. Silent anchors: the case for unpronounced indexicality. Rajesh Bhatt; Ilaria Frana; Paula Menéndez-Benito. Making Worlds Accessible. Essays in Honor of Angelika KratzerMaking Worlds Accessible. Essays in Honor of Angelika Kr, 118-149, , 2020, 978-1-945764-10-3. ⟨hal-04072679⟩