About the Speaker

• Compelling synthesis of the syntax and semantics of reference in discourse
• Crucial topics, the subject of much ongoing research
• Accessible to scholars and advanced students in linguistics and philosophy
• Written by one of the most internationally prominent Italian linguistics

Readership: Scholars and advanced students of the syntax and semantics of reference in departments of linguistics and philosophy.

Alessandra Giorgi, Professor of Linguistics, University of Venice

Introduction
1: The speaker's projection
2: Can we ever see the speaker's coordinates in the C-layer?
3: Is the speaker there? An analysis of some anomalous contexts
4: Depending on the future: the speaker changes her perspective
5: When somebody else is speaking: Free Indirect Discourse
Concluding Remarks
References
Index