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ram ko train me baithane ke chakkar me ram
CM train CM sit+CAUS+Nom CM attempt CM
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| The question of apna antecedent is rather
straight forward and unproblematic. Since apna
modifies the meaning of the possessive phrase by giving
rise to the sense of exclusive possession, it obviously
has to be related to the possessor, that is, the NP in
the specifier position of NP. Apna cannot precede
the NP to which it relates, neither can any morphological
material intervene between it and the NP to which it relates.
The following statement captures these: |
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apna's
antecedent must be the immediately
preceding possessor in its possessive phrase.
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may not really be needed in (85). It follows from the
internal construction of the possessive phrase. There
is no position where an argument can occur between the
head and the specifier position where the NP bearing the
theta-role of possessor occurs. And within the NP there
is no position after the head to host the possessor NP.
Therefore (86) can substitute (85): |
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apna's
antecedent must be the possessor in its
possessive
phrase.
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| To summarize the discussion on antecedent
choice of anaphors, we have the following formulation
to capture the A-anaphor-antecedent relationship: |
