Coreference and Predicational Relations

1.問題提起 2.提案 3.帰結 : 分裂文における同一指示解釈 4.おわりにAs has been claimed in Partee (1978), Evans (1980), among others, pronouns are divided into two types: one is referential, and the other is nonreferential, whose representative use is that of a bound variable. Unlike personal pronouns in English, kare in Japanese does not allow the bound variable use. This is why it has been argued in the literature that kare is unambiguously referential. This paper, however, proposes that at least some instances of kare do not have referentiality at all, and that they are in effect bound by the Subject of a predicational relation formed at a level after LF