On the (im)possibility of partial argument coreference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3987901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Cysouw (0000-0003-3168-4946, University of the Basque Country, corresponding author), Javier Fernández Landaluce |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2012-0024 |
| OpenAlex | W2111970276 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
In 1966, Paul Postal claimed that it is impossible to find grammatical sentences in which there is partial overlap between subject and object, i.e., in sentences like I like us. This observation lead, in direct scholarly descent, to the infamous Binding Principle B (Chomsky 1981). In this article we argue against Postal's original observation, as we claim that sentences with partial argument overlap are perfectly possible in English and sundry languages, although such expressions are conversationally constrained. The real-world situations that are described in such utterances are unusual, and thus the constructions are used infrequently, leading to uncertainty on the part of the speaker whether such expressions are well-formed or not. In the process of grammaticalization of pronouns into person-marking inflection this dispreference appears to turn into real impossibility
Agreement · Argument (complex analysis) · Coreference · Grammaticalization · Impossibility · Inflection · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Object pronoun · Personal pronoun · Quantifier (linguistics) · Resolution (logic) · Subject (documents) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |