It
is totally unclear from the relevant literature
what would be treated as the subject in constructions
such as these. The literature, to the best
of our knowledge, does not even mention such
sentences while discussing the notion of subject.
There are two arguments in each of the sentences.
If yudh or nafrat is treated as subject then
the subject is not the antecedent of the anaphor.
If, however, un dono me is treated as the
subject phrase there arises a problem. Whereas
it is the antecedent of paraspar in (27) it
is not the antecedent of paraspar in (28).
This seriously undermines the claim that the
subject is the antecedent of anaphors in Hindi.
In addition, there are grammatical sentences
in Hindi which appear to be subjectless and
yet permit anaphors in them. For instance: |
