Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Detail #222: An Extension of Switch Reference

Let us consider two different situations in a switch-reference situation: the referent may be a noun in the same speaker's utterance, or it may be a noun in another speaker's utterance.

This is an interesting difference and we could possibly do something with it. 

For reference to the same subject as the previous speaker's most recent verb referred to, you'd use the same-subject marker and some kind of second-person possessive or whatever.

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