Re: Comments on Tokana Reference Grammar

JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON wrote:

> I actually used to have a special class of resumptive pronouns, but
> I got rid of them because they seemed unnaturalistic - too
> loglang-ish!  :-)
Hmm.  Does anybody know a natlang that uses a special resumptive
pronoun in embedded clauses?  Turkish, Persian, etc. use their
standard pronouns.

> (2) Elided noun phrases are generally coreferential with the topic.
> Thus an elided pronoun and a gap would probably never occur within the
> same argument-domain.  Your sentence, "Han believes that saw", would
> thus be unlikely to occur.
This is a strong argument, I think.

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)