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following conclusions have been arrived at so far: |
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there
are conceptual problems in restricting PRO to
ungoverned positions and |
| (b) |
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there
are constructions in Hindi which are not elegantly
accounted for under this theory of occurrence
of PRO. |
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There seem to be reasons enough, then, to formulate
an alternative approach to account for the legitimate
or non-legitimate occurrence of PRO in Hindi. We outline
an approach below: |
Crucial
to our approach to the question of where PRO must occur,
is that PRO need not be constrained to occur in ungoverned
positions alone; in fact, we are not at all concerned
with whether the position is governed or not.
Our binding theory makes no reference to government
whatsoever and as such whether PRO must occur in a governed
or ungoverned position is totally a non-issue in our
theoretical framework. Occurrences or otherwise of PRO
are determined by different considerations which are
as follows:
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PRO
cannot occur in an argument position if |
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| (a) |
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PRO does not get the proper antecedent in the sentence |
| (b) |
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its occurrence disobeys PRO Filter |
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Below
we account for the legitimate and the illegitimate occurrences
of PRO in (24) - (33) above in terms of these conditions.
Although we have so far not discussed the question of
antecedent choice of PRO, an issue we will take up shortly,
the following discussion will hopefully not suffer from
lack of intelligibility for this reason. In (24) [PRO
ka] satisfies the PRO Filter and (24) will be grammatical
if PRO has an antecedent in the sentence. Compare (39),
and (40) which is similar to (24) in the relevant respect. |
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| (39)
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*PRO ka picture jana thik nahi
PRO CM picture go+Nom proper NEG
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| (40) |
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PRO ka picture jana ram ko pasand nahi
PRO CM picture go+Nom ram CM like NEG
(Ram does not like going to the pictures) |
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(39)
is ungrammatical because PRO cannot receive antecedent
in the sentence whereas it can in (40) which is why
it is grammatical. (25) - (27), (29) and (32) are rejected
by PRO Filter. |
