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It has been claimed that there are three kinds of Kaplanian monsters selected by different attitude verbs in Slave (Anand and Nevins 2004, Anand 2006) as well as in Uyghur (Sudo 2010). This chapter shows, on the basis of the collected data, that Dhaasanac has a fourth kind of monster that shifts person and temporal parameters optionally but does not shift the locative parameter in indirect reports.
This work is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP16K02643. I appreciate Jackson Achinya, Nyekitala Akol and Isaiah Korobe for the help with the examples in Dhaasanac, which is a Cushitic language spoken by approximately 48,000 people in Ethiopia and Kenya (Lewis 2009).
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A non-de se reading is difficult when the speaker is looking at himself on TV. In a situation where he is looking at himself in the mirror, both de se and de re readings are available.
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In a situation such as when Hasan finds himself in the mirror kissing the girl without noticing that it is himself, yu can refer to Hasan.
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Yu can refer to Baali when he finds himself on TV without knowing that the person who is meeting someone in NY is himself, as well as when Baali believes that his colleague will meet someone in NY and he is unaware that he is actually the one who is supposed to meet someone.
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Nishiguchi, S. (2019). Context-shift in Indirect Reports in Dhaasanac. In: Capone, A., García-Carpintero, M., Falzone, A. (eds) Indirect Reports and Pragmatics in the World Languages. Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78771-8_17
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