The derivation of anaphoric relations
Hicks, Glyn (2009) The derivation of anaphoric relations, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, John Benjamins, 309pp. (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 139).
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'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.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| ISBNs: | 9027255229 (hardback) 9789027255228 (hardback) |
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| Keywords: | binding theory, anaphors, minimalism, phases |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Humanities > Modern Languages |
| Item ID: | 64787 |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jan 2009 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 11:33 |
| Contributors: | Hicks, Glyn (Author) |
| Date: | 1 March 2009 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/64787 |
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