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How do we know who "he" is? And how does "he" differ from "himself" when we interpret it? In this week's episode, we talk about the syntax and semantics of pronouns: how we can place them in sentences, how they link up to variables, and the role of context in how we interpret them.
This is Topic #93!
This week's tag language: Macedonian!
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Sources:
Most of the information for this episode was taken from Heim and Kratzer's 1998 book, Semantics in Generative Grammar, and from Yasutaka Sudo's dissertation, available here: dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/...
Here's something else that is available online and is pretty accessible, Elizabeth Coppock's Semantics Boot Camp: eecoppock.info/semantics-boot-...
Looking forward to next time!