scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Problèmes de linguistique générale

Émile Benveniste
- 01 Mar 1968 - 
- Vol. 44, Iss: 1, pp 91
Reads0
Chats0
About
This article is published in Language.The article was published on 1968-03-01. It has received 1838 citations till now.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Primitives of Binding

Eric Reuland
- 01 Jul 2001 - 
TL;DR: The authors explains the conditions on the binding of pronouns, simplex anaphors, and complex anaphor, distinguishing the roles of the computational system, interpretive procedures, and discourse storage.
Journal ArticleDOI

Possession and the double object construction

TL;DR: It is argued that double-object verbs decompose into two heads, an external-argumentselecting CAUSE predicate (vCAUSE) and a prepositional element, PHAVE, which does not form part of the inventory of morphosyntactic primitives of these languages.
Journal ArticleDOI

Making a Pronoun: Fake Indexicals as Windows into the Properties of Pronouns

TL;DR: The authors developed a theory of pronouns that predicts the typology and individual characteristics of both referential and bound variable pronouns from the semantics of pronominal features and derived a space of possible paradigms for referentials and bound-variable pronouns.
Journal ArticleDOI

The fictions of language and the languages of fiction: The linguistic representation of speech and consciousness

TL;DR: This article presented a detailed analysis of free indirect discourse as it relates to narrative theory, and the crucial problematic of how speech and thought are represented in fiction, based on the insights of Ann Banfield's Unspeakable Sentences.
Journal ArticleDOI

The symbolic dimensions of the intercultural

TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the notion of third-place as symbolic competence and propose an approach to research and teaching that is discourse-based, historically grounded, aesthetically sensitive, and that takes into account the actual, the imagined and the virtual worlds in which we live.