The dissertation is devoted to the formal mechanisms that govern the use of evidentials,
expressions of natural language that denote the source of information for the proposition …

Natural language uses first and second person pronouns to refer to the speaker and
addressee. This dissertation takes as its starting point the view that speaker and addressee …

This paper addresses a long-standing debate concerning the derivation of de se construals.
One camp holds that there is a dedicated mechanism of 'de se binding', which results in a de …

One of the prescient observations of Speas (2000)–a gold mine of such things–is that the
apparent shiftiness of embedded person indexicals in Navajo may in some way be …

This article presents obligatory control constructions in San Martín Peras Mixtec, a language
in which PRO must be exponed with an overt pronoun. I propose a morphological analysis …

The present thesis investigates a set of issues related to the domain of complementation
within the West-African Manding language Jula. We focus on two complements types …

Being considered a discourse-pragmatic phenomenon earlier, the role perspective plays in
the syntax was peripheral in syntactic research until recently (eg Sundaresan 2012 …

Propositional attitude reports are sentences built around clause-embedding psychological
verbs, like Kim believes that it's raining or Kim wants it to rain. These interact in many …

This paper develops a novel account of evidentials as self-ascriptions of a mental state and
places them in a larger context of subjective expressions. I argue that this account explains …

In Serbian, complements of directive and desiderative predicates can be finite clauses
headed by da. da-clauses also serve as matrix clauses conveying directives or expressing …