The Syntax of Anaphoric Binding
Mary Dalrymple(Author)
The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications (Publisher)
Published on 1. July 1993
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978-1-881526-06-3 (ISBN)
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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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
342 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-881526-06-3 (9781881526063)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
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.