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On Two Recent Treatments of Disjoint Reference 1981

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Essays on Anaphora

Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory ((SNLT,volume 16))

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The phenomenon of disjoint reference has received a great deal of attention. The “Unlike Person Constraint” of Postal (1966a; 1969) was one early attempt to deal with the strangeness of examples such as (1).

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  1. See Lasnik and Freidin (1981) and Freidin and Lasnik (1981) for further discussion.

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  2. See Chomsky (1979) for a potential argument against this account.

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Lasnik, H. (1989). On Two Recent Treatments of Disjoint Reference 1981. In: Essays on Anaphora. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2542-7_6

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