Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface Gebunden

This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research. Much of the recent research on pronouns has shown that embedded environments such as clausal complements of attitude predicates provide a window into the nature of pronouns. Pronouns in such environments not only exhibit familiar distinctions such as that between bound and referential pronouns if they refer to the attitude holder they also participate in a broader range of phenomena e.g. distinguishing between a de se reading (involving a conscious self-direc ted belief) and a de re reading (involving an accidental belief about oneself). Topics covered include: the semantics of attitude reports that contain pronominal elements the semantics of pronominal features and their connection to indexicality new insights in the connection of pronominal typology and logophoricity or anti-logophoricity and finally the localization of embedded pronouns within a bigger picture involving the nature of perspective and the analysis of quasi-pronominal phenomena such as sequence of tense.