The Ling Space's video: Who Is She The Syntax and Semantics of Pronouns

How do we know who "he" is? And how does "he" differ from "himself" when we interpret it? In this week's episode, we talk about the syntax and semantics of pronouns: how we can place them in sentences, how they link up to variables, and the role of context in how we interpret them. This is Topic ! This week's tag language: Macedonian! Related videos: Referential Treatment: The Syntax of Binding - https://youtu.be/9sqm_cex4kA Up, Up and Away: The Verb Phrase-Internal Subject Hypothesis - https://youtu.be/EJoUyPIdu18 Relatively Close: The Syntax of Relative Clauses - https://youtu.be/Bra5gExyPbY Last episode: The Main Event: Event Semantics - https://youtu.be/lsD0j708xNw Other of our semantics videos: Downward Spiral: Negative Polarity Items - https://youtu.be/vd8cjyxHQdw Topic of Focus: Information Structure - https://youtu.be/gZ6o8yFvJYI Operation Relevance: Relevance Theory - https://youtu.be/yRv1agt776c Our website also has extra content about this week's topic, on different kinds of events, at: http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-93/ Find us on all the social media worlds: Tumblr: http://thelingspace.tumblr.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheLingSpace Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thelingspace/ And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com/ ! You can also find our store at the website, https://thelingspace.storenvy.com/ We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally. Sources: Most of the information for this episode was taken from Heim and Kratzer's 1998 book, Semantics in Generative Grammar, and from Yasutaka Sudo's dissertation, available here: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/77805 Here's something else that is available online and is pretty accessible, Elizabeth Coppock's Semantics Boot Camp: http://eecoppock.info/semantics-boot-camp.pdf Looking forward to next time!