Shifting the Blame : Attitude Embedding Predicates and Indexicals under Role - Shift
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We discuss novel data involving attitude predicates in American Sign Language. We offer evidence against the uniform treatment of attitudes by revealing new structural and interpretive differences between proffering and doxastic embedding predicates. Besides providing evidence for this distinction from a new domain, the data also advance the current understanding of the formal syntactic/semantic/pragmatic properties of sign language loci and role-shift (phenomena frequently occurring in sign languages and much discussed in sign linguistics), namely that 1-person indexicals under doxastics may not shift, and the 3-person pronoun under role-shift can be evaluated with respect to the matrix context.
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