5/29/2023 0 Comments Romain du roi fontinaThis study discusses Madame Tussaud's and similar contexts that allow a proxy reading of Georgian anaphors in subject position. If 'Himself is killing him' is ungrammatical in English, its Georgian equivalent is grammatical with the "aspect/property of” reading. The present study observes several problems for the Binding and Reflexivity frameworks, such as the subject use of the Georgian complex nominal reflexivization strategy. The contrasting behavior of the phrase as an anaphor and as a pronominal is argued to illustrate the grammaticalization process the body-part has undergone. This dissertation discusses a non-anaphoric use of the phrase formally identical with the complex nominal reflexivization strategy in Object Camouflage (Harris 1981). This strategy interacts with a verbal reflexivization strategy. It argues that Georgian possesses one simplex and one complex nominal reflexivization strategy, based on a grammaticalized body-part noun. This dissertation investigates Georgian (Kartvelian) reflexivization strategies within the Government and Binding (Chomsky 1981) and Reflexivity framework (Reinhart and Reuland 1993).
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