Referential Relations in Polish

This paper deals with the relationship between anaphora and their antecedents in Polish. In the trivial case, an anaphor and its antecedent are coreferent, i.e., they stand in a transitive relation to each other such that they have the same referent in the mental model of the real world. This case of referential relation is illustrated in (1). (1) Ewa znienawidziła siebie samą. Ewa.FEM.SG started to hate herself.FEM.SG ‘Ewa started to hate herself.’ The reflexive anaphor siebie samą ‘herself ’ in (1) not only correlates with its antecedent Ewa ‘Ewa ’ by referring to the same entity, but also with respect to morphosyntactic properties and syntactic form. Both the anaphor and the antecedent have the third person singular feminine form and are syntactically expressed by a single noun phrase. The anaphor--antecedent relationship is conventionally indicated by coindexation, i.e., by the identity of referential indices. In some linguistic paradigms, such as GB (Chomsky 1981), referential indices are represented by numeric or alphabetic subscripts. In other frameworks, such as LFG (Bresnan 2001), LTAG (Ryant an