Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to show that certain pronouns that are anaphoric on non-Agent subjects should be treated as phonologically realized traces, which are left within VP after subject raising. This idea is based on Hasegawa (2001), which we will support by focusing on the analysis of comparative VP ellipsis. More precisely, we will argue that such pronouns are interpreted as pure variables in the semantics because they are traces in syntactic structure.
