LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Genitive Case, Pro-Form, Lasagne
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What is pronominalization: replacement of a phrase by a proform (pronoun, how it works, replace a whole phrase: i. ii. It began early: pronouns replace np, not n, how we interpret pronouns, find the antecedent (thing that the pronoun is replacing, there are 2 types of antecedents: i. ii. Linguistic antecedent: a phrase that"s present in the same sentence or a previous one. Ex: mary, evan and gilbert usually meet at noon. Pragmatic antecedent: an antecedent that isn"t in a sentence. Where is she? : grammatical properties, pronouns show inflection for: i. ii. iii. iv. Gender: he, she (natural gender: pronouns and movement, passives: b. Interrogatives: replace a phrase, then undergo movement: wh-movement i. ii. Interrogatives may also introduce a phrase: iv: the story that she wrote was good. [np which story] that she wrote was good: pronouns versus proforms, pronouns replace np; proforms replace other types of phrases. They put it there yesterday. i. ii. iii. iv.
