Not every pronoun is always a pronoun

Eddy Ruys

doi:10.1007/s10988-022-09378-7

Not every pronoun is always a pronoun

Eddy Ruys

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Abstract

A homonymy analysis is proposed to explain the so-called “demonstrative use” of personal pronouns. This analysis explains why some pronouns (it) do
not allow a demonstrative use, as demonstrated in Nunberg (1993). The absence of a
demonstrative feature in it can also account for the fact that it does not allow
deferred reference. It is argued on the basis of the structure of the nominal
demonstrative paradigm that the homonymy analysis is more parsimonious than a
single-item analysis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1027-1050
Number of pages	24
Journal	Linguistics and Philosophy
Volume	46
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-022-09378-7
Publication status	Published - Oct 2023

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Keywords

Deferred reference
Demonstrative use
Demonstratives
Distributed morphology
Pronouns

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