Long distance anaphora in Avar: Why it can’t be empathy all alone

August 27, 2011

In this talk I present a detailed description of the behaviour of various classes of (anaphoric) pronouns in the Northeast Caucasian language Avar. I use these data to argue against approaches to anaphora based on pragmatic notions such as empathy.

Keywords: syntax, semantics, binding theory, reflexives, reciprocals, Avar

This is a talk at the World of Reflexives workshop at Utrecht University.

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I’m Pavel Rudnev, and this is my personal website. I’m a research fellow and lecturer in linguistics at HSE University in Moscow. My main area of interest is syntax and its interfaces with sound and meaning. In particular, my current research revolves around the structure of nominal expressions, agreement, case and verbal morphosyntax in East Caucasian languages, and the syntax-to-phonology mapping in Russian Sign Language.

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