The syntax of anaphoric binding
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The syntax of anaphoric binding
（CSLI lecture notes, no. 36）
Center for the Study of Language and Information, c1993
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Revised version of the author's thesis--Stanford University, 1990, under the title: Syntactic constraints on anaphoric binding
Bibliography: p. 181-186
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Mary Dalrymple provides a theory of the syntax of anaphoric binding, couched in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. Cross-linguistically, anaphoric elements vary a great deal. One finds long- and short-distance reflexives, sometimes within the same language; pronominals may require local noncoreference or coreference only with nonsubjects. Analyses of the syntax of anaphoric binding which have attempted to fit all languages into the mold of English are inadequate to account for the rich range of syntactic constraints that are attested. How, then, can the cross-linguistic regularities exhibited by anaphoric elements be captured, while at the same time accounting for the diversity that is found? Dalrymple shows that syntactic constraints on anaphoric binding can be expressed in terms of just three grammatical concepts: subject, predicate, and tense. These concepts define a set of complex constraints, combinations of which interact to predict the wide range of universally available syntactic conditions that anaphoric elements obey. Mary Dalrymple is a member of the research staff of the Natural Language Theory and Technology group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. An inventory of binding requirements
- 2. Characterizing anaphoric binding constraints
- 3. Levels of linguistic representation: projections
- 4. Anaphoric binding equations
- 5. Anaphoric superiority
- Bibliography
- Index.
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