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Cyclic Attraction into Networks of Coreference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Gilles Fauconnier
Gilles Fauconnier*
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
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Abstract

Neither classical transformations nor global rules can account satisfactorily for the interaction of Quantifier Movement, Agreement, and Pronominalization in French. It is argued that an adequate treatment involves rules that enlarge networks of coreference in the course of syntactic derivations. Linguistic analogs of logical variables must be present at late stages of a derivation, giving rise to an interesting interplay between logic and syntax. The relevance of these facts with respect to some recently proposed extensions of the standard generative theory is discussed.

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Language , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , March 1973, pp. 1 - 18
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Copyright © Linguistic Society of America 1973

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