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'''Pronoun of laziness''' is a [[pronoun]] which is only partially co-referential with an [[antecedent]].

=== Example ===

if the sentence ''John gave his hat to me, but Bill gave it to Sarah'' is intended to mean that I got John's hat and Sarah Bill's hat, the pronoun ''it'' does not have the same (intended) referent as ''his hat'', and thus is only 'lazily' co-referential with the full NP. If one takes the sentence to have a logical form like [John:x [x gave [x's hat] to me ] and [Bill:y gave [y's hat] to Sarah] with ''his'' a bound variable, ''it'' can be taken to be a copy of its antecedent (x's hat), rather than being co-referential with it. Full implementation of this analysis by means of [[lambda-abstraction]] is, however, more involved.

=== Links ===

[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Pronoun+of+laziness&lemmacode=448 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]

=== References ===

* Haik, I. 1986. ''Pronouns of Laziness,'' in: S. Berman et al (eds.) NELS 16, 197-216, U.Mass. Amherst.
* Partee, B.H. 1978. ''Bound Variables and other Anaphors,'' in:D. Waltz (ed.) Proceedings of TINLAP 2, 79-85, .

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 '''Pronoun of laziness''' is a [[pronoun]] which is only partially co-referential with an [[antecedent]].
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+If the sentence ''John gave his hat to me, but Bill gave it to Sarah'' is intended to mean that I got John's hat and Sarah Bill's hat, the pronoun ''it'' does not have the same (intended) referent as ''his hat'', and thus is only 'lazily' co-referential with the full NP. If one takes the sentence to have a logical form like [John:x [x gave [x's hat] to me ] and [Bill:y gave [y's hat] to Sarah] with ''his'' a bound variable, ''it'' can be taken to be a copy of its antecedent (x's hat), rather than being co-referential with it. Full implementation of this analysis by means of [[lambda-abstraction]] is, however, more involved.
 [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Pronoun+of+laziness&lemmacode=448 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
-=== References ===
+== References ==
 * Haik, I. 1986. ''Pronouns of Laziness,'' in: S. Berman et al (eds.) NELS 16, 197-216, U.Mass. Amherst.
 * Partee, B.H. 1978. ''Bound Variables and other Anaphors,'' in:D. Waltz (ed.) Proceedings of TINLAP 2, 79-85, .
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