Schlenker, Philippe. 2003. "Indexicality, Logophoricity, and Plural Pronouns" (not the final version; the final version appeared in Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II (Selected Papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000), ed. J. Lecarme, Benjamins, pp. 409-428, 2003)

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Abstract: We provide a brief analysis of the semantics of singular and plural person markers, with special reference to (i) the 'shiftable' first and second person markers of Amharic, (ii) the logophoric markers of Ewe, Gokana and Mupun, and (iii) plural indexical pronouns quite generally (including readings involving quantification and split antecedents)