ABSTRACT
Bach—Peters sentence /ˌba:k ˈpiːtəz/ n. A sentence containing two anaphors (sense 1), each of which has as its antecedent a noun phrase containing the other: [The woman who was sitting next to him i]j smiled at [the man who offered her j a light]i. Such sentences provide insuperable difficulties for theories of anaphora which derive pronouns from the reduction of full noun phrases. Bach (1970).
