In English, you can use the same pronoun (say "she") in three (seemingly) distinct ways: deictically ("she is wise"), anaphorically ("Mary thinks that she is wise"), or bound by a distributive quantifier ("every linguist thinks that she is wise"). How robust is this pattern across languages? Are there any languages which mandatorily distinguish these three different uses with different words? Any references on this issue would be greatly appreciated.
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