The article discusses judge-dependence of gradable adjectives and degree constructions.
Take the positive construction: whether sentences 'John is tall','This cake is tasty', or 'Mary is …

This paper argues that grammatical perspective, expressed along the spatio-temporal and
mental dimensions, has a syntactic component. Evidence for this is provided from non-local …

In this thesis, I examine two related constructions, Imperatives and Greek Root Subjunctives.
I argue that Imperatives and Root Subjunctives should be studied in parallel, as this …

This dissertation examines the notion of illocutionary force and whether it is embeddable by
examining the syntax, semantics and pragmatic effects of a range of root-like embedded …

Expressives, ie words such as “damn” or “bastard” are perspective-dependent: their content
is always evaluated from a certain perspective. Because expressive content projects out of …

In cases of indexical shift, so-called indexical pronouns like I, you, here, and now refer to the
speaker, addressee, location, and time of some context other than the utterance context. In …

Many kinds of linguistic expressions are perspective-sensitive, including predicates of
personal taste and some anaphoric forms. This paper reports three experiments testing …

Researchers have long had the intuition that interpreting deictic motion verbs involves
perspective-taking (see eg Fillmore 1965, 1966). In some sense, this perspective-taking is …

This dissertation investigates two related notions that represent attitudes and perspectives,
de se attitudes and the notion of logophoricity, based on the case study of the long-distance …

Natural language allows changing the point of view (POV) in narrative texts without overt
perspective-shifting operators. A well-known example of such a perspective shift is free …