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- Title
Pain and spatial inclusion: evidence from Mandarin.
- Authors
Liu, Michelle; Klein, Colin
- Abstract
The surface grammar of reports such as 'I have a pain in my leg' suggests that pains are objects which are spatially located in parts of the body. We show that the parallel construction is not available in Mandarin. Further, four philosophically important grammatical features of such reports cannot be reproduced. This suggests that arguments and puzzles surrounding such reports may be tracking artefacts of English, rather than philosophically significant features of the world.
- Subjects
PAIN; SENSORY perception; SURFACE structure (Linguistics); EXISTENTIAL constructions (Grammar); REPRESENTATION (Philosophy)
- Publication
Analysis, 2020, Vol 80, Issue 2, p262
- ISSN
0003-2638
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/analys/anz032