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The morphological basis of anaphora1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Luigi Burzio
Luigi Burzio
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Department of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
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Chomsky (1981: 188, 220; 1986a: 166) formulates the Binding Theory essentially as in (1).

(1) (A) An anaphor must be locally bound

(B) A pronoun must not be locally bound

(C) An R-expression must not be bound

The notion ‘bound’ is defined as ‘c-commanded by a co-referential element’. As for the notion ‘locally’, that of Chomsky (1986a) differs somewhat from that of Chomsky (1981), and much recent literature addresses the issue, especially in connection with the phenomenon of ‘Long Distance Anaphora’. (For relevant discussion see Burzio (1989c and references therein) and also Levinson, this volume.) For most of our purposes, it will be sufficient to assume Chomsky's (1981: 188) ‘within its [i.e. the anaphor's/pronoun‘s] governing category’, or even the formally simpler (though empirically less adequate) ‘within the same minimal clause’. The empirical effects of the Binding Theory in (1) can then be illustrated as in (2a, b, c) – instances of local binding, non-local binding, and no binding respectively. In each case the connecting line expresses intended co-reference, much as co-indexation in later examples. Each ungrammatical case is accounted for by the principle indicated in parentheses.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 81 - 105
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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