Pain and Spatial Inclusion: Evidence from Mandarin
Liu, Michelle and Klein, Colin
(2020)
Pain and Spatial Inclusion: Evidence from Mandarin.
ISSN 0003-2638
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.
Item Type | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords | pain, Mandarin, pain report, cross-linguistic analysis, location of pain |
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Date Deposited | 18 Nov 2024 11:38 |
Last Modified | 18 Nov 2024 11:38 |