The dynamics of a Japanese reflexive pronoun

  • Authors:

  • Eric McCready

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Texas at Austin

  • Venue:
  • JSAI'03/JSAI04 Proceedings of the 2003 and 2004 international conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the interpretation of the 'long-distance reflexive' zibun. I propose a new way to handle this item designed to account for intersentential binding facts. The account is couched within a version of dynamic semantics enriched with a notion of perspective. In the final part of the paper I show that this approach can be extended to account for intrasententially bound and indexical uses of zibun.