A bound pronoun in modern Greek

Modern Greekidhios has different properties depending on its grammatical function. Non-Subjectidhios must have a binder but it does not seem to obey the locality restrictions characteristic of anaphors (Iatridou 1986). Furthermore, it cannot occur in embedded questions or relative clauses thought it can be found in noun complement constructions and adjuncts. In addition it licenses only sloppy identity interpretations under ellipsis and cannot tolerate split antecedents. Subjectidhios differs in every respect. It need not be bound, it can occur in embedded questions and relative clauses. It does not require a sloppy identity interpretation under ellipsis and it can take split antecedents. We show that these properties ofidhios follow from the assumption non-subjectidhios is an A′-bound pronoun. We derive the properties of subjectidhios by showing that it cannot be a bound pronoun as it is subject to an A′-disjointness constraint typical of bound pronouns.