KENNETH L. PIKE's scientific contributions

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... In the present paper, after defining the type of embedded quotation amenable to my method (Section 2), I discuss an informal computation method (Section 3), a nondeterministic automaton (Section 5), and an algebraic formalism (Section 6), any one of which calculates referents of each pronoun. Pike and Lowe (1969) have already applied group theory to give an answer to the embedded quotation problem, subject to the three major restrictions that (1) only three participants A, B, and C are involved, (2) only singular nonreflexive pronouns occur in the quotations, and (3) at each stage of the embedding a formula occurs (such as 'you said to him') specifying both a single speaker ('you') and a single addressee ('him'). Lowe's article (1969) also contains some brief suggestions about extensions to include a firstperson-plural 'we' and involvement of more participants. ...