LINGUIST List 3.384

Wed 06 May 1992

Qs: English Questions, Spanish Binding

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1. , Re: 3.376 Help re: IAUPE
2. Andre-Pierre Benguerel, NeXT
3. "ALICE FREED", query about English interrogatives
4. "STEVE SEEGMILLER", Query on Spanish and Binding

Message 1: Re: 3.376 Help re: IAUPE

?Hay alguien que sepa cOmo se puede comunicar con los ordenadores de la
Universidad de Texas? Es que busco informaciOn sobre el programa de educaciOn
bilingUe de los distintos condados que forman la ciudad de Austin y Areas
limItrofes...Gracias...Brett

This message is an attempt to find out who in the linguistic
community, is using a NeXT workstation (cube, slab, turbo, or
whatever model), more particularly in the area of phonetics and
phonology. If you would like to know the results of this survey,
please indicate it in your reply. Thanks to all.

I would appreciate any references that discuss the relationship
or correspondence between the syntactic form and the pragmatic
(or social) function of interrogatives in English. Much of the
work that I am familiar with claims that any form can be used for
any function. My own research suggests otherwise. Please send
replies directly to:

Freedapollo.montclair.edu

(Alice F. Freed
Linguistics
Montclair State College)

This is a request for help, in the form of references, suggestions, etc.,
on a syntactic problem (or maybe only an apparent problem). I have
recently stumbled upon some interesting Spanish data which seem to violate
Binding Principles. In particular, my informants have provided examples like

 Juan hablo a Pedro de/sobre el

and insist that el can can have as its antecedent at least Juan, and
perhaps also Pedro. If the facts are what they seem, Binding Principle 2
is clearly violated, since we have a pronoun which is not free in the local
domain. There are also cases, although not so clear, in which an anaphor
seems not to be bound in the local domain.

Any thoughts on such examples will be greatly appreciated. If there is
interest, I will post a summary of responses received.

Thanks.

Steve Seegmiller
seegmillerapollo.montclair.edu