Pronouns, anaphors, and distributional strangeness in creoles and Tahitian

This paper concerns some data from Tahitian French which pose potential problems for previous accounts of binding phenomena (Chomsky 1981; Reinhart & Reuland 1993). Traditional accounts seek to explain the apparent complementary distribution between pronouns and anaphors, as shown below: (1) a. Clint Eastwood i admires himself i=