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Peer reviewedHoeksema, Jack; Napoli, Donna Jo – Journal of Linguistics, 1990
Argues that the i-within-i condition (Chomsky, 1981) is both empirically inadequate and theoretically incoherent. A definition for circular chains, a condition on the interpretation of the reference of free pronominals and anaphors, is proposed that adequately accounts for the data involving referential circularity that had been previously…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Nouns
