Breaking the coreference rule: Reflexivity in Russian Sign Language

(with Vadim Kimmelman) “Breaking the coreference rule: Reflexivity in Russian Sign Language.” Unpublished manuscript. University of Amsterdam and University of Groningen

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This paper is concerned with the distribution of reflexive and non-reflexive pronouns in local anaphoric configurations in (three dialects of) Russian Sign Language (RSL). We demonstrate that most of the observed facts can be accounted for on a Binding Theory supplemented by a version of the Coreference Rule (Büring 2005). We also show that an additional mechanism, coreference via the signing space, is required to explain certain cases of non-complementarity. A related mechanism is proposed to account for similar facts in spoken languages.

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