Abstract Taking its cue from the critical treatment given to unreliable narration by Wayne C. Booth and his early followers, in contrast claims often made field of authentication theory, this paper seeks join debate on “third-person” narrative unreliability outlining an inclusive approach phenomenon which “person” parameter need not be a determining factor. To theorize illustrate approach, meth...

It is proposed that the inscription be segmented at a different point to usual, namely, immediately before ñneti. The content of second curse then perpetrator shall defiled commensurately with defilement tomb, i.e., singular case talion not attested elsewhere in Lycian inscriptions, nor Greek inscriptions from Lycia. A request bury "my" wife and children follows as an additional, third part ori...

This study examines French-learning infants' sensitivity to grammatical non-adjacent dependencies involving subject-verb agreement (e.g., le/les garçons lit/lisent 'the boy(s) read(s)') where number is audible on both the determiner of the subject DP and the agreeing verb, and the dependency is spanning across two syntactic phrases. A further particularity of this subsystem of French subject-ve...

Why do young children leave out sentential subjects? Two competence-deficit hypotheses and a performance-limitation account are evaluated in the present set of studies. American children appear to understand that English requires subjects before mean length of utterance (MLU) 2.0. On balance, performance factors account for the data best. Natural conversations between 21 American children (rang...