Message-Id: <v03007808ae9ebb600a49@[128.255.161.92]>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:44:03 -0600
To: linconf@tamvm1.tamu.edu
From: Chris Culy <cculy@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Subject: Questions about Tenny
Tenny in her article discusses "short distance pronouns" (SDP) as in her
examples below:
(3) Max(i) saw a gun near him(i).
Max(i) put the gun near/under/on him(i).
Max(i) sat Lucie next to him(i).
Max(i) pulled the cart towards him(i).
Max(i) rolled the carpet over him(i).
Max(i) directed Lucie towards him(i).
(4) Max(i) likes jokes about him(i).
Lucie(i) saw a picture of her(i).
Max(i) heard a story about him(i).
The analysis she gives states that
(i) Short distance pronouns and their antecedents
are non-coarguments.
(ii) Short distance pronouns are logophoric.
(iii) Short distance pronouns involve locational deixis.
I have two informational questions related to point (iii).
First, what is the grammaticality status of examples like
(101) Max(i) twisted the knife into him(i)/himself(i).
Max(i) carved the letters into him(i)/himself(i).
If the SDPs in (101) are not as good as those in (3), why should that be?
(The analysis does not seem to make a prediction here, since it says that
SDPs can only appear in the relevant environments, not that they must.)
Second, what is the grammaticality status of examples like
(102) Max(i) gave Lucie(j) a photo of him(i) and a painting of her(j).
cf. Max(i) gave Lucie a photo of him(i).
Max gave Lucie(i) a painting of her(i).
The example in (102) is like those in (4), which Tenny does not discuss due
to lack of space. If this type of example is as good as those in (4), are
there two instances of SDPs? If so, how does that fit with the locational
deixis account of SDPs? The problem is that there should be only one center
of deixis in the clause (cf. Iida 1992, which also contains examples making
a similar point for "logophoric" reflexives in English), so there shouldn't
be two SDPs referring to different deictic centers. If there aren't two
instances of SDPs in (102), what are the pronouns?
Regards,
Chris Culy
chris-culy@uiowa.edu
Reference
Iida, Masayo. 1992. Context and binding in Japanese. Stanford U. dissertation.