The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations (Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today)

329 Pages·2009·2.99 MB·English

by  Glyn Hicks

The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations
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The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations.
by Glyn Hicks
The Derivation
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Glyn Hicks
University of Southampton
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The derivation of anaphoric relations / by Glyn Hicks.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments ix
Notesforthereader xi
chapter1
Introduction 1
1.1 Theclassicalbindingtheory 1
1.1.1 ReferentialpropertiesofDPs 1
1.1.2 Thedistributionofanaphorsandpronouns 3
1.1.3 Thebindingconditions 4
1.2 Theoreticalcontextoftheresearch 5
1.2.1 Abriefhistoryofthebindingtheory 5
1.2.2 Currenttheoreticalchallenges 6
1.3 Organisationofthebook 8
chapter2
BindingtheoryandtheMinimalistprogramme 11
2.1 Introduction 11
2.2 BindingtheoryinPrinciplesandParameters 13
2.2.1 Chomsky(1973,1976) 13
2.2.2 Chomsky(1980) 19
2.2.3 Chomsky(1981) 22
2.2.4 Chomsky(1986b) 31
2.2.5 Summary 35
2.3 TheMinimalistprogramme 36
2.3.1 CoreMinimalistassumptions 36
2.3.2 TheDerivationbyPhaseframework 38
2.3.3 TheoreticalproblemsforDerivationbyPhase 44
2.3.4 Summary 55
2.4 BindinginMinimalism 55
2.4.1 Theoreticalchallenges 56
2.4.2 Chomsky(1993),Chomsky&Lasnik(1993) 58
2.4.3 RemainingproblemsfortheMinimalistbindingtheory 60
2.5 Conclusion 63
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chapter3
ThebindingtheorydoesnotapplyatLF 65
3.1 Introduction 65
3.2 Evidenceforasyntacticbindingtheory 67
3.2.1 Theoreticalarguments 67
3.2.2 EmpiricalevidenceforasyntacticConditionB 68
3.2.3 EmpiricalevidenceforasyntacticConditionA 76
3.3 Counter-evidence1:Trappingeffects 81
3.3.1 ConditionCinteractingwithanaphorbinding 82
3.3.2 QuantifierscopeinteractingwithA-movementacross
ananaphor 85
3.4 AmodificationtotheanalysisofConditionAeffects 86
3.5 Counter-evidence2:Idiominterpretation 88
3.5.1 Subjectlesspicture-DPidiomchunks 89
3.5.2 Picture-DPidiomchunkscontainingsubjects 91
3.6 Counter-evidence3:Reconstructionwithexpletiveassociates 92
3.7 Counter-evidence4:Reconstructionwithboundpronouns 93
3.8 Conclusion 95
chapter4
EliminatingConditionA 97
4.1 Introduction 97
4.2 Encodingbindingrelations 99
4.2.1 Bindingrelationsderivedbymovement:
Hornstein(2000) 99
4.2.2 Bindingrelationsderivedbymerger 101
4.2.3 BindingrelationsderivedbyAgree 105
4.2.4 Featuresinvolvedinbinding 107
4.3 Implicationsforthedomainproblem 124
4.3.1 Phasesaslocalbindingdomains 124
4.3.2 Somepreliminariesonprobing 126
4.3.3 Bindinginfiniteclauses 128
4.3.4 Bindinginnon-finiteclauses 129
4.4 Bindingatlongerdistance 135
4.4.1 Teasingapartnonlocalandlocalbindingconfigurations 135
4.4.2 Complicationswithpicture-DPs 140
4.4.3 Non-binding-theoreticconstraintsonreflexives 141
4.5 Bindingintopicture-DPs 146
4.5.1 Bindingintoasubjectlesspicture-DPwithin
thesameclause 147
4.5.2 AreDPs(LF-)phases? 151
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4.6 Anaphorconnectivity 158
4.6.1 TheinteractionofbindingandA(cid:1)-movement 159
4.6.2 TheinteractionofbindingandA-movement 160
4.7 Conclusion 164
chapter5
EliminatingConditionB 167
5.1 Introduction 168
5.2 Empiricalevidenceforthelocaldomain 169
5.2.1 vPasthelocaldomain 169
5.2.2 DP/nPasalocaldomain 171
5.2.3 PPasalocaldomain 175
5.2.4 Implicationsfornon-complementarity 180
5.2.5 IsthePF-phasereallyrelevant? 182
5.3 MotivatingConditionBeffects 189
5.3.1 ImprovingontheMinimalistConditionB 190
5.3.2 PossibilitiesforareanalysisofConditionB 192
5.4 ConditionBasaneconomyviolation 199
5.4.1 WhyPF-phasesarelocaldomains 200
5.4.2 IsConditionBderivablefromAgreeafterall? 201
5.4.3 DerivingConditionBfromotherprinciples 202
5.4.4 Remainingissues 212
5.4.5 Summary 214
5.5 Conclusion 215
chapter6
ExtensionstootherGermaniclanguages 217
6.1 Introduction 217
6.2 Dutch 219
6.2.1 AnaphorsandpronounsinDutch 219
6.2.2 AnalysisofDutchanaphorsandpronouns 222
6.2.3 ExplainingthedistributionofSEandSELFanaphors 227
6.2.4 Problemswithzich 234
6.2.5 Summary 244
6.3 Norwegian 245
6.3.1 AnaphorsandpronounsinNorwegian 245
6.3.2 Thebasicdistributionofanaphorsandpronouns 246
6.3.3 Extendedbindingdomainsandorientation 255
6.3.4 Anoteonreciprocals 263
6.3.5 Summary 264
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6.4 Icelandic 265
6.4.1 AnaphorsandpronounsinIcelandic 265
6.4.2 Thedistributionofsig 267
6.4.3 Problemswithpronouns 278
6.4.4 Summary 287
6.5 Conclusion 289
chapter7
Conclusions 291
7.1 Summaryofthebook 291
7.2 Finalthoughts 293
Bibliography 295
Index 307
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Acknowledgments
ThisbookhasarisenfrommyPhDattheUniversityofYork,undertakenbetween
October2003andDecember2006.Itisarevisedversionofmythesis(Hicks2006),
whichbearsthesamename.
The work herein owes a great debt to my PhD supervisor Bernadette Plun-
kett andthesis advisor George Tsoulas.The inputof Jan-WouterZwart, the the-
sis examiner, has been invaluable. The ideas developed over the last five years
and presentedhere have greatly benefitedfrom the input of DavidAdger, Jonny
Butler, Siobhán Cottell, Cécile De Cat, Annabel Cormack, Kook-Hee Gill, Steve
Harlow, Anders Holmberg, Norbert Hornstein, Tibor Kiss, Ken Safir, Hidekazu
Tanaka,andTohruUchiumi.Manythanks,finally,totheJohnBenjaminseditors
Werner Abraham, Elly van Gelderen, and Kees Vaes (along with several anony-
mousreviewers)fortheireagerencouragement,carefulreviews,andexpeditious
processingofmymanuscript.
Igratefullyacknowledgea full-time scholarship andresearch grantfromthe
UniversityofYork(October2003toSeptember2004),andfull-timefundingfrom
the Arts and Humanities Research Council (October 2004 to September 2006;
awardnumber2004/107606),whichallowedmetocarryoutthisresearch.Chap-
ter 3 appears in Syntax (2008, vol. 11) in slightly revised form; many thanks to
BlackwellandJohnBenjaminsformakingthispossible.