Anaphors, agreement and case*
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چکیده
This article presents an alternative explanation for the Anaphor-Agreement effect, the generalisation that anaphors do not occur in syntactic position construed with agreement (cf. Rizzi 1990). I propose that this effect finds its explanation in the theory of argument marking. Arguments must be marked by either case or agreement for reasons of LF visibility (cf. Chomsky 1986). However, when an anaphor occurs in an argument position marked by agreement, the anaphor and the predicate cannot enter into an agreement relation, so that the anaphor fails to be argument-marked and the Visibility Condition cannot be satisfied.
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