The Impersonal Use of German 1st Person Singular Ich release_wo272o7jxfdnzgxn4v3ldycrzi

by Sarah Zobel

Published in Linguistic Inquiry by MIT Press - Journals.

2021   p1-31

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> This paper replies to Ackema and Neeleman's (2018) claim that 1st person singular pronouns are grammatically blocked from having impersonal uses. In connection with this claim, they argue that the impersonal use of German 1st person singular ich described in Zobel 2014 does not exist. I show that Ackema and Neeleman's alternative analysis of the German data analyzed in Zobel 2014 is flawed, and that new considerations inspired by their proposal further support the claim that German ich has an impersonal use. This result not only has ramifications for Ackema and Neeleman's account of the morphosyntax and semantics of (impersonally usable) personal pronouns, but for anyone researching the morphosyntax and semantics of pronominal expressions and how these interact.
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