Abstract
All natural languages contain certain elements whose interpretation depends on their linguistic (and, sometimes, non-linguistic) environment. These elements are pronominals: pronouns and reflexives. The information associated with the lexical entry for, say, pronoun she or reflexive himself, is limited and is never sufficient to provide a unique interpretation for these elements. The environment where these elements appear functions as a source of information for establishing reference.
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Avrutin, S. (1999). Establishing Reference. In: Development of the Syntax-Discourse Interface. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1239-2_2
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