ABSTRACT

TherearecertainalternativeapproachestodefiniteNPanaphorawhich Ihaveignoredsofar.Fortheseapproaches,thefailureoftheprecedeand-commandrestrictiononanaphora,aswellasindependentbeliefs aboutthenatureoflanguage,indicatethatcoreferenceisnotdependent atallonpropertiesofthesyntactictree.