DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaavoid pronoun principle
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaChomsky (1993)
TitoloLectures on Government and Binding. The Pisa Lectures
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[…] a principle that we may state in the most general terms as (5), interpreted as imposing a choice of PRO over an overt pronoun where possible: (5) Avoid Pronoun.
- Chomsky (1993), Pag. 65

The Avoid Pronoun principle operates uniformly, permitting empty subjects where the element AGR is sufficiently "strong" to allow recoverability.
- Chomsky (1993), Pag. 276