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ram ko rasgulla pasand hai
ram CM rasgulla like be+PRES
(Ram likes rasgulla)
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(ii)
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*ram
ko apna rasgulla pasand hona thik
ram
CM self rasgulla like be+Nom proper
nahi
lagta hai
NEG
perceive be+PRES
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| In 35 (ii) and 36 (ii) above, the anaphor
does not receive an antecedent. Hence the sentences are
correctly eva;iated as ungrammatical. In 37 (ii) the anaphor
gets an antecedent in the perceiver ram, and the
sentence is grammatical. In 38 (ii), again, apna
finds an antecedent in the perceiver ram, and the
sentence is grammatical, although the more elegent version
of the sentence is the one in which the anaphor does not
occur. This is thus an example of the Avoid Anaphor Principle
operating in Hindi. The second sentence in each of the
remaining sets is ungrammatical, not because the anaphor
in each cannot find an antecedent since ram, which
bears the perceiver theta-role can indeed be the antecedent.
But the problem is that none of the first sentences in
each of these sets can be embedded as an NP. In support
of this, consider the following sentences in which there
is no anaphor in the embedded NP and yet the sentences
are ungrammatical: |
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| (42) |
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*hari
ko [ram ka mandir jana hona ] accha
parna
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nahi
laga
NEG perceive+PAST
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| (43) |
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*mohan ko [ram se uska kam na hona] bura
mohan
CM ram CM his work NEG be+Nom bad
lagta
hai
perceive+PAST
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| (44) |
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*mohan ko [ram aur shyam ka batchit hona]
mohan
CM ram and shyam CM conversation be+Nom
pasand
nahi aya
like
NEG come+PAST
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