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Binding and non-distinctness: a reply to Burzio1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Steven Franks  and
Linda Schwartz
Steven Franks
Affiliation:
Indiana University, Bloomington
Linda Schwartz
Affiliation:
Indiana University, Bloomington
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A serious and widely recognized problem of the standard Binding Theory is that it has no non-circular definition of the crucial notions ‘anaphor’, ‘pronoun’ and ‘R-expression’. Burzio (1991) proposes a significant new characterization of these notions, based on their absolute and relative morphological content. Specifically, he proposes that different NP types can be distinguished by their Θ-feature content: anaphors lack Θ-features altogether, pronouns have Θ-features and no other features, and R-expressions have Θ-features plus referential information, as in (1). The Binding Theory can then be regarded as a single principle, stated in (2).

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 227 - 243
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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