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<p>This paper documents and analyzes a contrast between two <span>3sg</span> pronouns, the proximate and the obviative, in Atchan (Kwa, Côte d’Ivoire). I show that the obviative has a restricted distribution and restricted referential possibilities, both of which can be captured on a treatment of this pronoun as an obligatorily bound element. I develop a semantic account of this pronoun’s distinctive behaviors on which the obviative contains a presuppositional disjointness feature. I show that this account captures the anti-prominent orientation and restricted distribution of the obviative.</p>

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Semantics of obviation in Atchan: disjointness and long-distance obligatory binding

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    2025年8月29日

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  • Rebecca Jarvis

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This paper documents and analyzes a contrast between two 3sg pronouns, the proximate and the obviative, in Atchan (Kwa, Côte d’Ivoire). I show that the obviative has a restricted distribution and restricted referential possibilities, both of which can be captured on a treatment of this pronoun as an obligatorily bound element. I develop a semantic account of this pronoun’s distinctive behaviors on which the obviative contains a presuppositional disjointness feature. I show that this account captures the anti-prominent orientation and restricted distribution of the obviative.