Person & Perspective

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A workshop honoring the work of María Luisa Zubizarreta


University of Southern California, May 3-4, 2019
PERSON & PERSPECTIVE 2019
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PERSON & PERSPECTIVE

Person & Perspective

The category of person plays a central role in a variety of grammatical phenomena, some of which seem to be purely syntactic, while others clearly involve the semantic component.  Person distinctions are determined relative to the speech or thought situation (i.e. the local attitude situation): arguments are formally identified as a type of participant (author/addressee) or a non-participant.  Person thus bears an inherent affinity with grammatical categories rooted in the other parameters of the attitude situation: time and spatial location. Person, temporality and spatial deixis are unified as different ways to encode perspective: an attitude holder’s view of the described event from the standpoint of the attitude event.
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Invited
speakers

Mark Baker (Rutgers University)
Roumyana Pancheva (University of Southern California)
Liliana Sánchez (Rutgers University)
Sandhya Sundaresan (University of Leipzig)
Workshop organizers
Mónica Cabrera (Loyola Marymount University)
José Camacho (Rutgers University)
Betül Erbaşi (University of Southern California)
Patricia Schneider-Zioga (California State University, Fullerton)
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This workshop is organized with the generous financial support from:
The Jean-Roger Vergnaud Graduate Student Fund (Department of Linguistics, USC)
Graduate Students in Linguistics (GSIL, USC)
The Department of Linguistics, USC

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