Sarah Zobel
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sarah Zobel is involved.
Article
2016 A pragmatic analysis of german impersonally used first person singular ‘ICH’ The referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences, De Cock, Barbara and Bettina Kluge (eds.), pp. 379–416 | Article
The German first and second person singular pronouns ich and du allow for a referential use and an impersonal use. In their impersonal use, both pronouns behave like the impersonal pronoun man (Engl. one) in generic sentences. I argue that the aspect of impersonally used singular personal… read more