
Conlangery #62: Practicum — Anaphora and Co-reference
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The Importance of Keeping Donkey Pronouns Straight
Don Quiber: I don't have a whole lot of subordinate clauses in the Don Quiber story, are it? But it works a little bit for some of these things for just figuring out who is doing what to whom. It's important that your language can keep them straight without constantly having to go wait. Although it's ironic that a major confusion for certain syntax theories about an Afra talks about a donkey an Afra or the donkey pronoun. Every human being who speaks English has no problem identifying it as referring to the donkey. Some people were a little disappointed that we didn't have super long episodes anymore. We'll do better when we have... when they're not so long.
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