Perspective sensitive items (PSIs) affected by Indexical Shift: Indexical PSIs in Turkish
Keywords: perspective sensitive items, indexical shift, syntax, clausal complementation
Abstract: We provide novel evidence for a dissociation between perspective-senstive items (PSIs) and indexical shift: Some PSIs (indexical PSIs, e.g. gel ‘to come’) shift together with indexicals, but other PSIs (e.g. SCEs) are unaffected by indexical shift. The existence of indexical PSIs suggests that elements not typically viewed as indexical can pattern like indexicals and may be targeted by the same kind of shifting operator. This supports context-overwriting approaches (e.g. Deal 2020) and is not directly predicted by approaches reducing indexical shift to syntactic agreement (e.g. Baker 2023). Also, the link between verb agreement and indexical shift in ASCs shows optionality of the agreement reflects a fundamental syntactic difference, namely the merge of the OP. If ECM embedded clauses lack structural size for the merge of the OP (e.g. Deal 2020), this implies that at least some ASCs are prolepsis structures, in line with Major (2021) on Uyghur.
Submission Number: 243
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