Pronouns and diamonds

Authors

DOČEKAL Mojmír

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Modality in Slavonic Languages
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords pronouns; formal semantics
Description Pronouns are generally divided into two classes: deictic pronouns and anaphoric pronouns, both of which exist in Czech. In my paper I discuss some specific properties of the Czech anaphors. I show that anaphoric pronouns can not have antecedents across some class of modal operators. I discuss the phenomena in detail and at the end propose a solution referring to the framework of dynamic semantics. Following the proposals made by Groenendijk and Stokhof (1991) I argue that the solution can be best explained by a distinction between internal and external dynamic operators.

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