Article
Which view of indirect reports do Persian data corroborate?
International Review of Pragmatics
(2018)
Abstract
In this paper, I will review Davidson’s paratactic account of indirect reports, the attacks leveled against it, and the support it received. I will then provide data from Persian which seem to support the idea that neither Davidson and his proponents nor his opponents were completely right, and that an adequate theory of indirect reports is doomed to be semantico-pragmatic in nature.
Keywords
- indirect reports,
- Davidson’s paratactic account,
- semantico-pragmatic,
- pure indexicals,
- true demonstratives
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring April 1, 2018
Citation Information
Salmani Nodoushan, M. A. (2017). Which view of indirect reports do Persian data corroborate? International Review of Pragmatics, 10(1), 76-100.
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