TY - JOUR AU - Hardt, Daniel PY - 2019/05/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Internal and external readings of same: Evidence for a uniform account JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 21 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/153 SP - 535-546 AB - <p><em>Same</em> is an anaphoric element that performs a comparison, which can either be external or internal to a sentence. Hardt and Mikkelsen (2015) show that <em>same</em>, unlike other anaphoric expressions, imposes a parallelism constraint, and they present three types of examples showing that <em>same</em> is infelicitous in the absence of parallelism. Hardt and Mikkelsen propose an account that applies uniformly to internal and external readings; however, the evidence they present largely targets external readings – they don’t offer empirical evidence that clearly supports the uniform approach. Furthermore, Barker (2007) argues that internal readings must be treated differently than external readings. In this paper, I show that the parallelism effects observed by Hardt and Mikkelsen in fact apply to internal readings as well. This provides support for a uniform treatment of internal and external readings of <em>same</em>. It also suggests that discourse relations, which typically apply to separate overt predications, also apply to the implicit predications that arise in distributional structures.</p> ER -