Abstract Various proposals have been made in the literature, arguing that bound pronouns are, some sense, deficient. This article tests this hypothesis with Malagasy pronouns, specifically context of Zribi-Hertz and Mbolatianavalona's (1999) claim may be only when they are missing NumP layer DP. Mbolatianavalona show further other syntactic properties also attached to lack NumP. The variety inv...

In this paper we present a study of the relation between types of third personal singular neuter pronoun and their functions in Danish spoken data where stress information is marked so that personal and demonstrative occurrences of the pronouns can be distinguished. This study confirms that there are language specific differences in the way various types of pronoun are used to refer to abstract...