Pseudo Incorporation and Anaphoricity: Evidence from Persian

Abstract

The paper investigates the discourse effects of bare nominal pseudo-incorporated objects in Persian. Contrary to claims that such nominals cannot be antecedents to anaphora, experimental results show that that their anaphoric potential is only somewhat reduced, compared to indefinites. This is consonant with Krifka & Modarresi (2016), according to which they are interpreted like functional definites that are dependent on the event denoted by the verb that undergo existential closure.

Keywords

• Definiteness
• weak definites
• Anaphoric potential
• Pseudo-Incorporation
• discourse anaphora