Condition B and Other Conditions on Pronominal Licensing in Serbo-Croatian
Ivana Jovovic
June 2022 

I argue that certain binding facts from Serbo-Croatian (SC), previously analyzed as Condition B violations by Despić (2011, 2013), are best captured in terms of specific discourse constraints on coreferential pronouns and that such cases have no bearing on the categorial status of the nominal domain in SC. I show that the availability of clitic and non-clitic pronouns that are coreferential with a possessor antecedent crucially depends on whether the antecedent is a discourse topic or new information focus, which will lead me to conclude that such cases are not Condition B violations. I also observe that pronouns in English are subject to identical conditions and conclude that English also has clitic and non-clitic pronouns.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/006671 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Prepublication version. Published in Linguistic Inquiry. doi:https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00475
keywords:	clitics, condition b, focus, nominal domain, pronouns, serbo-croatian, syntax
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