Emar Maier
List of John Benjamins publications for which Emar Maier plays a role.
2023 Minds: Big questions for linguistics in the age of AI Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 301–308 | Article
2021 The discourse structure of free indirect discourse reports Linguistics in the Netherlands 2021, Dingemanse, Mark, Eva van Lier and Jorrig Vogels (eds.), pp. 21–39 | Article
We investigate the discourse structure of Free Indirect Discourse passages in narratives. We argue that Free Indirect Discourse reports consist of two separate propositional discourse units: an (explicit or implicit) frame segment and a reported content. These segments are connected at the level… read more
2021 Taking the perspective of narrative characters: A mouse-tracking study on the processing of ambiguous referring expressions in narrative discourse Linguistics in the Netherlands 2021, Dingemanse, Mark, Eva van Lier and Jorrig Vogels (eds.), pp. 144–162 | Article
An ongoing debate in the interpretation of referring expressions concerns the degree to which listeners make use of perspective information during referential processing. We aim to contribute to this debate by considering perspective shifting in narrative discourse. In a web-based mouse-tracking… read more
2019 To shift or not to shift: Indexical attraction in role shift in German Sign Language Sign Language & Linguistics 22:2, pp. 171–209 | Article
There are two main competing views about the nature of sign language role shift within formal semantics today: Quer (2005) and Schlenker (2017a,b), following now standard analyses of indexical shift in spoken languages, analyze it as a so-called ‘monstrous operator’, while Davidson (2015) and… read more
2003 Quotation in Context Hybrid Quotations, De Brabanter, Philippe (ed.), pp. 109–128 | Article
It appears that in mixed quotations like the following, the quoted expression is used and mentioned at the same time:
George says Tony is his ‘bestest friend’.
Most theories seek to account for this observation by assuming that mixed quotations operate at two levels of content at once. In… read more