On the apparent unbindability of overt third-person pronouns in Japanese.
Contrary to the widely held view that Japanese overt third-person pronouns such as kare and kanozyo cannot function as bound variables, it has been sporadically reported in the literature that there are cases in which they can receive a bound-variable interpretation. The present paper attempts to pr...
| Publicado en: | Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 1421 - 1439 |
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Springer Nature
Nov2015
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