Long Distance Anaphora

✍ Scribed by Jan Koster, Eric Reuland

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There are a number of persistent anomalies in binding theory. One is the lack of an integrated view of long distance anaphora. Anaphors generally require an antecedent, but languages have been found to show striking differences as to where such antecedents may occur. This volume is a collection of original articles by distinguished contributors on the nature of anaphoric systems in a wide variety of genetically and structurally different languages, and examines the general laws underlying the apparent diversity of data from the perspective of current linguistic theory. There is a surprising degree of convergence in the analyses proposed. A substantive introduction summarizes and discusses the main results, providing an integrative picture of individual and common results.

✦ Table of Contents

Abstract......Page 2
Title......Page 4
2 Containment and connectedness anaphors......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
1 Long-distance anaphora: an overview......Page 14
3 Long-distance reflexives and the typology of NPs......Page 62
4 Contextual determination of the anaphor/pronominal distinction......Page 90
5 On the interaction between antecedent-government and binding: the case of long-distance reflexivization......Page 132
6 Binding in Polish......Page 150
7 Anaphors in binary trees: an analysis of Czech reflexives......Page 164
8 Latin long-distance anaphora......Page 184
9 Prepositions, binding and θ-marking......Page 198
10 Locality, parameters and some issues in Italian syntax......Page 222
11 Long-distance binding in Finnish......Page 244
12 The primacy condition of anaphora and pronominal variable binding......Page 258
13 The local nature of the long-distance reflexive in Chinese......Page 276
14 Anaphors and logophors: an argument structure perspective......Page 296
References......Page 336
Index......Page 348