| (8)
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ram
aur mohan ko |
sita
voh
*ek dusre |
pasand
hai |
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ram
and mohan CM |
sita
he
*each other |
like
be+PRES
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(To
Ram and Mohan
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Sita
he
*each other |
appeals)
appeals
appeal
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| An R-expression or a pronoun is allowed but
not an anaphor in the preverbal position. However, if
the argument bearing the perceiver theta-role can be the
antecedent of an anaphor as pointed out above, an anaphor
should be possible in this construction since it has a
possible antecedent, i.e. ram aur mohan. This construction
is not an instance of NIC violation. A sentence containing
a nominative anaphor is ungrammatical in English because
it cannot get an antecedent and as such remains uninterpreted,
but this is not the case here. There is indeed a possible
antecedent in the sentence. Therefore, one must abandon
the attempt to account for the ungrammaticality of (8)
in terms of NIC violation and explore other possibilities. |
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| Consider the lexical properties of pasand.
pasand can be used to express two meanings. These
are (I) "choose" and (ii) "appeal".
Examples of each are given below: |
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| (9)
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ram
ne mohan ko us naukari ke liye pasand kiya
ram CM mohan CM that job CM choose do+PAST
(Ram chose Mohan for that job.)
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| (10) |
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ram mohan ko bahut pasand karta hai
ram
mohan CM very much like do+PRES
(Ram likes Mohan very much.)
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| (11) |
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ram ko mohan bahut pasand hai
ram
CM mohan very much like be+PRES
(Ram
likes Mohan very much.)
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| In (9), an anaphor cannot be used in place
of mohan. That is why (12) is ungrammatical. |
