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Contents

List of contributors

Preface

1 Long-distance anaphora: an overview

1 Introduction

2 Binding theory and its parameters

3 The contributions and their implications

3.1 Argument structure and binding

3.2 Binding and movement

3.3 Properties of anaphoric domains

4 Surveying anaphoric domains

4.1 Background

4.2 The survey

4.3 Discussion

5 The binding domains: a result

Notes

2 Containment and connectedness anaphors

1 Introduction

2 Long-distance binding and the containment/connectedness distinction

2.1 Notions and the main principle

2.2 Long-distance anaphors in Scandinavian

2.2.1 Norwegian

2.2.2 Icelandic

2.3 Other long-distance anaphors

2.3.1 Italian proprio

2.3.2 Japanese zibun

2.3.3 Chinese ziji

2.3.4 A possible weaker version of (4), and criteria of being a long-distance anaphor

2.4 Concluding remarks

3 Differences between containment and connectedness anaphors in certain interpretive processes

3.1 VP-anaphora

3.2 Speaker construal

4 Concluding remarks

Acknowledgements

Notes

3 Long-distance reflexives and the typology of NPs

1 Introduction

2 Standard BT classification of NPs and some extensions

2.1 The standard BT

2.2 A first revision - the syntactically defined domain extended

2.3 Truly long-distance reflexives, bound and unbound

3 The common property of 'anaphors' in the extended sense

3.1 Bound-variable reading?

3.2 Incapable of 'independent' or 'deictic' reference?

4 Towards a new classification of NPs

4.1 Schematically

4.2 A (partially) new classification in terms of features

5 Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Notes

4 Contextual determination of the anaphorl pronominal distinction

1 Introduction

2 Two types of reflexivization?

3 SD-anaphors vs. LD-anaphors

4 SD-anaphors vs. LD-anaphors: the case of Dutch zichlzichzelf

5 Binding theory reconsidered

5.1 The anaphor/pronominal distinction in BT

5.2 The notion governing category

5.3 A revised binding theory

5.4 Dutch anaphors

6 Unidentified pronouns

6.1 The Frisian pronoun system

6.2 Contextual binding principles

6.3 (Inherently) reflexive verbs

6.4 Frisian him and Dutch zich as unidentified pronouns

6.5 Reciprocals

7 Some problems and consequences

7.1 Acl-passives

7.2 Disjoint reference

7.3 The classification of empty elements

7.4 Acquisition of anaphors

8 Conclusion

Acknowledgement

Notes

5 On the interaction between antecedent governmentand binding: the case of long distance reflexivization

1 Introduction

2 On the distinction between mono-morphemic and non-mono-morphemic anaphors2

3 On the argument-like character of long-distance reflexives

4 Some differences between clitic climbing at S-structure and clitic climbing at LF

5 On the interaction between binding and antecedent-government

5.1 On some similarities between long-distance reflexivization and switch reference

5.2 The case of clause-bound reflexives

5.2.1 The case of X''-reflexives

5.2.2 On the adjunct-like character of the so-called non-mono-morphemic reflexives

6 Some brief remarks on the so-called long-distance reflexive in English

Acknowledgements

Notes

6 Binding in Polish

1 Introduction

2 Polish binding facts

2.1 Some general remarks about Polish

2.2 Polish pronominals and anaphors

2.3 Clause-internal binding of pronominals and anaphors

2.4 Pronominals and anaphors in infinitival clauses

2.S Pronominals and anaphors in participial clauses

2.6 Pronominals and anaphors in NPs

2.6.1 Anaphors in subject NPs

2.6.2 Anaphors in object NPs

3 Binding theory for Polish

3.1 Binding domains for anaphors

3.2 Binding domains for pronominals

3.3 Extension of binding domains

Notes

7 Anaphors in binary trees: an analysis of Czech reflexives

1 Descriptive preliminaries

1.1 Reflexive pronouns

1.2 Possessive reflexives

1.3 Some implicational generalizations

2 The question of the antecedent

2.1 Full reflexives and small clauses

2.2 Clitic reflexives and small clauses

2.3 Observations on inflected small clauses

2.4 Possessive reflexives

3 A summary of results

Notes

8 Latin long-distance anaphora

1 Introduction

2 Extending the domains

2.1

2.2

3 (Non-subject) antecedents

Conclusions

Notes

9 Prepositions, binding and O-marking

1 Introduction

2 Prepositions and long-distance anaphors (LDAs)

3 The hypothesis

4 PPs in other small clause constructions

5 More on predicative structures

6 Locative vs. non-locative prepositions

7 On some apparent counterexamples

Notes

10 Locality, parameters and some issues in Italian syntax

1 Introduction

2 Locality and parameters

3 Reciprocals

4 Inalienable possession

5 Parameters again

11 Long-distance binding in Finnish

1 Summary

2 Introduction

3 The Finnish anaphoric/pronominal system

3.1 The possessive suffix

3.2 Binding of the Finnish anaphors

4 A theory of long-distance binding

5 Conclusion

12 The primacy condition of anaphora and pronominal variable binding

1 Introduction

2 Anaphor binding

3 Pronominal variable binding

4 Summary and conclusions

Notes

13 The local nature of the long-distance reflexive in Chinese

1 Introduction

2 Potential binders of the reflexive

3 Long-distance ziji: previous analyses

4 The locality of long-distance ziji

5 Conclusion

Notes

14 Anaphors and logophors: an argument structure perspective

1 Introduction

2 Anaphoricity

3 Local binding: SELF-anaphors

3.1 Reflexive and non-reflexive contexts of SELF-anaphors

3.2 Reflexive marking

3.3 Conditions A and B

3.4 ECM-structures

3.5 Picture NPs

3.6 Intrinsically reflexive predicates

3.6.1

3.6.2

4 SE-anaphors

4.1 Association with Agr

4.2 Apparent binding domains

5 Language-specific and open problems

5.1 Pronouns and SE-anaphors

5.2 SE- and SELF-anaphors

6 Logophoricity

6.1 Logophoricity with SELF-anaphors

6.1.1

6.1.2

6.1.3

6.2 Logophoric SE-anaphors

6.3 Centre orientation and the semantics of logophoricity

Acknowledgements

Notes

References

Index