| Chapter - 3 |
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| The two basic issues about PRO are occurrence
of PRO and the antecedent of PRO and the chapter is about
these. We confine ourselves to the so-called "controlled"
PRO. The standard view with regard to it occurrence and
the intepretaton is the following: "PRO is restricted
to ungoverned positions that are non-opaque in the sense
of the theory of binding; and it must appear in positions
where an NP is required but no case is assigned (excluding
phonetically-realized NP) and the position is ungoverned
(excluding trace. Depending on the nature of the verb,
PRO is controlled either by the complement of the verb…
or by its subject. |
| But since in Hindi a CM governs its complement
position, being the head of the phrase, PRO in Hindi will
always be governed, always being in the complement position
of a CM. [PRO CM] string is grammatical inthis: although
there are instances of [PRO CM] string being ungrammatical.
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*PRO ne ram ko pita
PRO CM ram CM beat+PAST
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| 2) |
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*PRO ko ek kitab mili
PRO CM one book get+PAST
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| 3) |
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*PRO
se ye ka nahi hoga
PRO CM this work Neg be+FUTURE
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| These show that PRO cannot always occur
in the complement position of a CM. It seems natural because
CMs are bound morphemes and need appropriate lexical material
to get realized. However, there are certain other CMs
with which PRO seems to be able to occur. Consider: |
| (4) |
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ram ne mohan ko [PRO ke ghar jane] par ram
CM mohan CM PRO CM home go+Nom CM
majboor
kiya
force
do+PAST
(Ram
forced Mohan to go home)
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| (5) |
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ram
ne [PRO Ø parte hue bacche] ko dekha
ram CM PRO read RRL PART child CM see+PAST
(Ram saw the child who was studying)
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To
weed out all ungrammatical occurrences of [PRO CM] it
is proposed that the grammar include the following Filter
in the PF component: |
| (6) |
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PRO Filter *[PRO
CM], where CM Ø or non-genitive ka.
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