Revisiting Anaphoric Islands

Abstract

Postal (1969) discusses words as anaphoric islands. So-called outbound anaphora was further discussed in a series of papers published in the 1970s through the early 1990s, but inbound anaphora, such as Postal's himite (beside McCarthyite ), has received less attention. It is shown here that a wide variety of words in Georgian are based on pronouns, including fully referential personal pronouns, reflexive pronouns, question words, quantifiers, and negative pronouns. Thus, the nonoccuring combinations of English are a language-particular problem.

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