1988, Marvin Minsky, Society Of Mind, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN), page 217:
Our language often uses pronounlike words to refer to mental activities […] Whenever we talk or think, we use pronounlike devices to exploit whatever mental activities have already been aroused, to interlink the thoughts already active in the mind. To do this, though, we need to have machinery we can use ...
2008, LouAnn Gerken, Language Development, Plural Pub Incorporated (→ISBN)
For example, Italian-speaking children with SLI have difficulty producing pronounlike clitics, like lo in 9c. English-speaking children with normal language and with SLI have little trouble with the corresponding him. Leonard and Bortolini suggest that the Italian clitic is often unfooted, ...
2022, Eric Reuland, Anaphora and Language Design:
[…] a specific class of pronominals or pronounlike elements with certain ("defective") referential properties?
