Notes on Perspective-Sensitivity

TL;DR: Erlebte Rede (free indirect style) as mentioned in this paper is a narrative technique used to present reports of consciousness which to some extent blends direct and indirect speech, which is characterized by the interaction of specific linguistic markers which allow the presentation of a character's point of view while simultaneously maintaining the narrative frame.

TL;DR: The authors investigate how perspective factors guide interpretation of these two types of expressions and whether participants' interpretation of whose opinion is expressed by a subjective adjective is linked to their interpretation of who is the antecedent of the reflexive or pronoun.

TL;DR: This article studied the effect of perspective-sensitive expressions on linguistically-caused perspective-taking and shifting in natural language utterances and provided empirical evidence of the guiding mechanisms involved in perspective-dependent interpretations.

TL;DR: Perspectival biscuits are a novel class of biscuit conditional that arise when an if-clause containing a generic pronoun is used to shift perspective for the interpretation of a perspective-sensitive item in the consequent.