This article explores the syntactic and feature-geometric properties of English pronouns, and offers some novel solutions to questions identified by Déchaine & Wiltschko (2002) and Rullmann (2004). Building on work by Cowper & Hall (2003, 2005) and Cowper (2005), we propose denotations and geometrical organizations for features of #, ϕ, and D, and show how these representations and their various syntactic realizations can account for the behaviour of pronouns in English, Halkomelem, and Shuswap. Our analysis provides a consistent interpretation for ϕ, rather than the dual nature proposed by Déchaine & Wiltschko (2002), and eliminates the need for at least one instance of coercion.
2023. Not every pronoun is always a pronoun. Linguistics and Philosophy 46:5 ► pp. 1027 ff.
Maldonado, Mora & Jennifer Culbertson
2022. Person of Interest: Experimental Investigations into the Learnability of Person Systems. Linguistic Inquiry 53:2 ► pp. 295 ff.
Ghomeshi, Jila & Diane Massam
2020. Number is Different in Nominal and Pronominal Phrases. Linguistic Inquiry 51:3 ► pp. 597 ff.
Kim, Kyumin & Paul B. Melchin
2018. On the complementary distribution of plurals and classifiers in East Asian classifier languages. Language and Linguistics Compass 12:4
Tiskin, Daniel
2018. Intentional Identity as a Transparency Phenomenon. In Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface [Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 99], ► pp. 43 ff.
Déchaine, Rose‐Marie & Martina Wiltschko
2017. A Formal Typology of Reflexives. Studia Linguistica 71:1-2 ► pp. 60 ff.
2013. The Morphosyntactic Interface of Determiner Phrases. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics 03:04 ► pp. 360 ff.
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