A correspondent asked, “From a behavioral perspective, what is a pronoun?” This was my response (lightly edited): Several possible responses came to mind. A) It’s not a behavioral concept, so …
1 Despite the suspicions of vulgar-minded behavior analysts, Skinner’s term “autoclitic” has distinguished antecedents. The “enclitic,” is a long-established grammatical term for a morphological unit that does not stand alone …
3 The Sept. 5, 2008 edition of [the Onion] reported that a damp stain on a concrete wall in Tennessee bore a striking resemblance to the features of Charles Darwin. …