Abstract
AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to shed light on a phenomenon concerning the German first person singular pronoun ich which challenges the standard view on the semantics of first person singular pronouns, i.e. that they are always speaker-referential. The presented data shows a non-standard use of first person singular ich which I analyze to have a similar semantics to the German impersonal (generic) pronoun man. The analysis for non-standard ich is shown to be modifiable to also model the deictic use of ich. Finally, I bring up some related problems that merit further investigation.KeywordsChoice FunctionRelational ComponentEmotional InvolvementNational TeamStandard SemanticThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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