Obviation properties of the d -pronoun in Dutch

The present paper discusses a decisive difference in Dutch between the d (emonstrative)-pronoun and the p (ersonal)-pronoun. The d -pronoun is a grammatical device for focus-to-topic-shift. Van Kampen (2010) derived this from two properties of the d -pronoun , neither of them present in the p -pronoun. (i) The d -pronoun obviates as antecedent all arguments except the first preceding focus. (ii) The d -pronoun introduces the new topic of its sentence. The present paper derives three other properties of the d -pronoun. The d -pronoun allows a bound variable reading in certain complex CPs (Secti... Mehr ...