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Emphatic or reflexive? On the endophoric character of French lui-méme and similar complex pronouns1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Anne Zribi-Hertz
Anne Zribi-Hertz
Affiliation:
Département des Sciences du Langage, Université de Paris-8. URA 1720 (CNRS)
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This study examines the referential properties of a class of complex pronouns labelled M-PRONOUNS, exemplified by Old English HIMSELF, French LUI-MéME and English HISOWN. It is shown that M-pronouns exhibit some properties commonly taken as characterizing reflexive anaphors, and that they also occur as ‘intensive’ pronouns. It is shown, however, that they are not anaphors, and that labelling them ‘intensives’ does not suffice to account for their distribution. It is argued that the semantic properties of M-pronouns may be derived from their morphological structure. Their pronoun component (Old English HIM, French LUI, English HIS) is not a pronominal, in the sense of the Binding Theory, but a bindable expression unspecified for disjoint reference and locality. In the complex form created by M-adjunction, the pronoun is crucially de-stressed and, correlatively, interpreted as endophoric.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , September 1995 , pp. 333 - 374
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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