Backwards anaphora in discourse context

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Most of the time a pronoun follows its antecedent, as in (Ia); less often the pronoun comes first, as in (Ib): (1) (a) The woman who is to marry Ralph will visit him tomorrow. (Forwards Pronominalization; coreferent elements in italics) (b) The woman who is to marry him will visit Ralph tomorrow. (Backwards Pronominalization) In elementary syntax classes we account for these ‘Backwards Pronominalization’ cases by building something like the Langacker (1969)/Ross (1969) structural condition into our Pronominalization rule.

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