A Glue/λ-DRT Treatment of Resumptive Pronouns
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Anaphora and resumption, phenomena which intuitively seem to challenge resource sensitivity, have been argued to support its role in Glue. The resource deletion treatment of resumption in LFG Glue presented by Asudeh (2004) was designed to work together with the Glue resource duplication treatment of anaphora (Dalrymple et al., 1999). However, as ‘resumptive pronouns’ are mere pronouns, the choice of a treatment of anaphora that has long been found to be inadequate creates an issue. A modular treatment of pronouns using LFG, Glue, and λ-DRT (Kokkonidis, 2005) is the most promising alternative. A treatment of resumption for this treatment of pronouns is presented together with new insights about resource management, the new and the old treatment of resumption, and the intuitions behind them.
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