Plural and Quantified Protagonists in Free Indirect Discourse and Protagonist Projection
Marta Abrusan
September 2022
 

In this paper I observe a number of new plural and (apparently) quantified examples of free indirect discourse (FID) and protagonist projection (PP). I analyse them within major current theoretical approaches, proposing extensions to these approaches where needed. In order to derive the wide range of readings observed with plural protagonists, I show how we can exploit existing mechanisms for the interpretation of plural anaphora and plural predication. The upshot is that the interpretation of plural examples of perspective shift relies on a remarkable concert of covert semantic and pragmatic operations.
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Reference: lingbuzz/006831
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Published in: to appear in the Journal of Semantics
keywords: free indirect discourse, viewpoint shift, protagonist projection, plurals
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