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Koster, Jan and Eric Reuland. 1991. Long-distance anaphora. Cambridge University Press. xii + 340 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

These papers consider two problems which long-distance reflexivization causes for Chomsky's Government-Binding Theory (GB). The major problem is the violation of the locality restriction imposed on reflexives by binding condition A: in principle, the antecedent can be indefinitely far way from the long-distance reflexive. The other problem is that binding condition A lets too much freedom in the antecedent-choice for a long-distance reflexive, so that it fails to accomodate subject orientation. The database consists of twelve genetically and structurally different languages.