The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-5522-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 139, 309 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 730 g

Reihe: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations resolves a conspicuous problem for Minimalist theory, the apparently representational nature of the binding conditions. Hicks adduces a broad variety of evidence against the binding conditions applying at LF and builds upon the insights of recent proposals by Hornstein, Kayne, and Reuland by reducing them to the core narrow-syntactic operations (specifically, Agree and Merge). Several novel and independently motivated claims about syntactic features and phases are made, not only explaining the previously stipulated roles played by c-command, reference, and locality, but furnishing the dervational binding theory with sufficient flexibility to capture some long-problematic empirical phenomena: These include connectivity effects, ‘picture-noun’ reflexives in English, and anaphor/pronoun non-complementarity. Specific proposals are also made for extending the derivational approach to accommodate structured crosslinguistic variation in binding, with thorough expositions and analyses of the Dutch, Norwegian, and Icelandic pronominal systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hicks, Glyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes for the reader
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Binding theory and the Minimalist programme
Chapter 3. The binding theory does not apply at LF
Chapter 4. Eliminating Condition A
Chapter 5. Eliminating Condition B
Chapter 6. Extensions to other Germanic languages
Chapter 7. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index