Syllabicity

[Ralf-Stefan Georg]

>"Patrick C. Ryan" wrote:

>> A pronoun is a pro-noun. It can be put in any position syntactically in
>> which a noun can be employed. To say that pronouns do not "act like nouns"
>> is completely unjustified!

>Not entirely so.  One cannot say, for example, *the he.  To the best of
>my knowledge, of languages with articles, none of them use them with
>pronouns.

Since articles are determiners, and (personal) pronouns used for anaphora,
any referent of a personal pronoun is, in discourse terms, determined by
definition (the speech act participants are determined, better
individualized by default), in unmarked usage. To use a determiner on an
inherently determined constituent would thus be pleonastic, to use an
indefinite article (an "indeterminer" ???) contradictory.

>In addition, pronouns usually (always?) cannot have
>non-predicate adjectives, "old man" is acceptable, "old he" is not.

I forgot. Silly me.

St.G.

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