Re: Question about anaphora

In a message dated 5/31/2003 7:17:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
fam.miekk-oja@NETIKKA.FI writes:


>In Swedish, there's one set of pronouns that refer back to the subject of
>the previous clause, and another that refers back to the last noun (or else)
>of that clause. (Den/det/de refers to subject, denna/detta/dessa refers back
>to the last noun).

For my conlang (Revonian) I'm considering giving all relative pronouns a
prefix that indicates the case of the antecedent, to solve simlar problems of
ambiguous reference.

Or, I might have lenition of the initial consonant of the relative pronoun to
indicate whether it does or does not refer to the closest preceding possible
antecedent.  I'm indecisive.

Doug