An Analysis of Two Approaches about English Local Anaphora

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate two different approaches of anaphoric expressions, one with agreement based approach satisfying Phase Impenetrability Condition, the other with relevance approach to Anaphora pragmatics and semantic content. It begins with comparisons on these two views on Anaphoric Expressions of English, followed by comments and opinions about these two theories, and the way to make a compromise between two views to explain anaphoric expressions.