Open AccessAnaphoric R-Expressions as Bound Variables
Author(s) -
Felicia Lee
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual meeting of the berkeley linguistics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2377-1666
pISSN - 0363-2946
DOI - 10.3765/bls.v28i1.3833
Subject(s) - upper and lower bounds , combinatorics , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , mathematical analysis
This paper shows that putatively "bound" R-expressions in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec and Thai are not, in fact, true R expressions, but bound variables spelled out as copies of their antecedents. Likewise, "locally bound" pronouns are bound copies of their antecedents.
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