Coreference in correlatives: Variable binding or anaphora? [In Russian]

Abstract

This paper concerns the analysis of correlatives in the Iron dialect of Ossetic. Most of the existing analyses of correlatives in languages of the world are based on the assumption that correlatives are a subclass of relative clauses, and that the subordinate clause in correlatives is somehow connected to the adnominal adjunct position. I argue that this approach is not applicable to Ossetic, and correlatives in this language are better analyzed as adjuncts to the main clause. The coreference between the relative NP in the subordinate clause and the demonstrative correlate in the main clause is established by means of long-distance anaphora, and not of operator-variable binding, as in canonical relative clauses.

Publication
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 7 (3)
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