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SUMMARY:The interaction of gender marking and perspective-taking - Prof St
 efan Hinterwimmer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
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DESCRIPTION:Joint work with Jesse Harris (UCLA)\n\nThe talk deals with a p
 henomenon regarding the interaction of perspective-taking with morphosynta
 ctic gender that to the best of our knowledge has not been discussed so fa
 r: In Free Indirect Discourse (FID)\, there is a strong preference for a p
 ronoun that refers to an individual whose thoughts or utterances are repre
 sented to match the gender identity/biological sex (by default) of that in
 dividual rather than the morphosyntactic gender of the DP functioning as i
 ts immediate antecedent in discourse. We propose that the preference for s
 emantic agreement in FID is due to increased empathy with the individual f
 unctioning as the perspectival center\, leading to the expectation that th
 e gender features of the pronoun are compatible with the perspectival cent
 er’s expressive self-concept.
LOCATION:Lucia Windsor Room (Newnham College)
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