Uncontroversially, the meaning of first and second person pronouns and
“imposters”, i.e. expressions like yours truly (Collins and Postal in Imposters: a study
of pronominal agreement. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012), should be indexical
(Kaplan in Themes from Kaplan. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 481–563,
1977/1989; Stalnaker in Synthese 22:272–289, 1970), but how exactly this indexicality
is achieved has been a matter of some debate. While not settling the debate, this
paper aims to show that there is no single way to become a person indexical. Natural
language allows for at least three different representations leading to person indexicality.
Evidence for this comes from sentences involving imposters and pronouns
coreferent with or bound by them. Particularly telling are cases of variation between
third and non-third person pronouns in sentences with imposters, first discussed by
Collins and Postal. Constraints on this variation support the view that it is not adequate
from either an empirical or an explanatory perspective to treat all person indexicals
uniformly

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• Three routes to person indexicality