Epithets as Antilogophoric Pronouns

Zero Pronouns as Experiencer in Japanese Discourse

The process of finding the antecedent of zero pronoun, that is indispensable to Japanese language understanding, is the topic of this paper. Here we mainly concern with discourses comprising two sentences that are in a subordinate relation, especially one of them describes the agent's volitional action and the other describes the reason of the action. We propose basically two new principles: (1...

Clac Círculo Clac Determiners as Modified Pronouns

This paper challenges the notion that the structure of the Determiner Phrase (DP) contains a virtual category which answers for DPs’ referential and anaphoric uses. Some current DP proposals, for instance, assume a null pronoun to account for the nominalized Adj(ective) in Romance, while others in Germanic postulate an abstract operator (or demonstrative) to derive the specificity of definite D...

On Definite Descriptions , Condition C and Epithets

Following a general line explored by Bolinger, Reinhart, Levinson and Schein, we seek to derive Condition C of the Binding Theory from a Gricean maxim of minimization (Minimize Restrictors!), which specifies that a definite description the A B is deviant if A could be dropped without affecting (i) the denotation of the description, and (ii) its various pragmatic effects. Thus the small (America...

The Names and Epithets of the Dagda

Emphatic Pronouns*