Organizers

• Daniel Hole (University of stuttgart)
• Alassane Kiemtoré (University of Stuttgart)

Description

Pronouns which are interpreted as referring to the “I” of an externalized or internal speech-act, but feature 3rd person morphology occur in many languages of the world. There are three geographical areas for which rather large bodies of literature exist dealing with this phenomenon: West Africa, East Asia and Northern Europe. In recent years, a growing interest in perspectivization in language irrespective of lexically dedicated form classes has come to the conclusion that Free Indirect Discourse (FID) as known from literary and linguistic studies is a related phenomenon. What is more, the basic stative readings of object experiencer verbs have been found to force FID readings in the past tense (The view fascinated him). Large portions of control phenomena, including all of the known finite control phenomena, have been recognized as involving perspectivization. Lastly, deictic perspectivization, which construes the location of objects in space relative to a deictic center, is likely to turn out as a kind of “reduced” perspectivization, i.e. as perspectivization without cognition being a necessary ingredient of the deictic center.

The workshop that we envisage here will, for the first time and at a global level, bring together formal and empirical perspectives on logophoricity, viewpoint, empathy, long-distance reflexivization, Free Indirect Discourse and deixis in a place that does not lie in the core area of West African logophoric systems.

This workshop received generous funding from the "Stuttgart Research Focus Language and Cognition" and the "DAAD (GIP Stuttgart-Ouagadougou, Projekt 57341717)"