LINGUIST List 17.3522

Wed Nov 29 2006

Books: Syntax: Sevcenco

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Directory         1.    Keetje van den Heuvel, Terms of Binding: Sevcenco
Message 1: Terms of Binding: Sevcenco
Date: 28-Nov-2006
From: Keetje van den Heuvel <lotlet.uu.nl>
Subject: Terms of Binding: Sevcenco


Title: Terms of Binding Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series Published: 2006 Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Author: Anca Sevcenco Paperback: ISBN: 9789078328179 Pages: 197 Price: Europe EURO 21.82
Abstract:

The present dissertation aimed at achieving two goals. First, itconstitutes an attempt to widen the search for phenomena that bearrelevance to the ideathat binding has a syntactic residue and is not, therefore, an exclusivelysemantic matter. Second, it tried to provide the technical means to account forthese phenomena. The case of the non-local binding of the Romanian barereflexive sine (self) is used to back up the view that the syntacticresidue of binding exists and should be extended so as to includeA'-dependencies. Syntactically-encoded non-local binding is defined as atype of binding dependency that violates the Specified Subject Constraint.Non-locally bound anaphors, of the type instantiated by sine, areidentified by a set of properties that include: subject orientation,c-command by both the local and the non-local antecedents and therestriction to the bound variable reading. There are diagnostics that pointto the conclusion that non-local anaphors that meet these properties linkup to their antecedents as the result of an A'-dependency having beenestablished.

The diagnostics include (i) the ungrammaticality of non-local binding outof adjunct islands and its very marginal acceptability out of relativeclause islands and (ii) blocking of non-local binding by localwh-antecedents and quantified antecedents. The possibility of Romaniannon-local sine to enter an A'-dependency with its non-local antecedents isdetermined by the morphosyntactic properties of this bare reflexive form,i.e. by the feature specification it carries from the Lexicon.

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
Subject Language(s): Romanian (ron)
Written In: English (eng )

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