I think the syntax of the following line in a Triqui folktale is pretty interesting for its lack of anything like PRO or Condition B effects:
Literally, 'He ordered the opossum (that) it will lower it in the water'. The verb tanij is in the potential aspect, as is normal for the complement of a verb like 'order'. But nothing seems to signal the coreference between the main clause object 'opossum' and the two pronouns coreferent to it in the embedded clause.
Literally, 'He ordered the opossum (that) it will lower it in the water'. The verb tanij is in the potential aspect, as is normal for the complement of a verb like 'order'. But nothing seems to signal the coreference between the main clause object 'opossum' and the two pronouns coreferent to it in the embedded clause.
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