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REFERENTIAL PROPERTIES OF PRONOUNS
AND ANAPHORS INSIDE NOUN PHRASES
Lynn Nichols University of California-Berkeley Friday, November 18, 3:30 PM MJH Rm 126 Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center/Mellon Foundation Graduate Research Program One context in which pronouns and reflexive anaphors are both known to occur in English is that of the relational NP, cf. John liked the joke about him/himself. Previous attempts to explain the unexpected distribution of so-called Short Distance Pronouns have sought a special characterization of the binding domain in this context according to alternative syntactic or semantic criteria. The current investigation makes the case that Short Distance Pronouns are independently referential rather than bound and that the distribution of Short Distance Pronouns vs. reflexive anaphors in relational NPs is due to the referential properties of the NPs containing them. 
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