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Courses and Workshops
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Description
Binding Theory, which is concerned with sentence-internal constraints
on anaphora, was originally (Chomsky 1983) conceived in syntactic
terms as conditions on the distribution of indices: Condition A
(Anaphors are locally bound): *John/i thinks that himself/i is clever;
Condition B (Pronominals are locally free): *He/i likes him/i;
Condition C (R-expressions are free): *He/i thinks that John/i is
clever. But other researchers have attempted to derive these
constraints from lexical semantics or the interpretative procedure
rather than the syntax. Some (e.g. Reinhart 1983, Heim 1993, Fox
2000, Buring 2002) add a semantic component to a syntactic core, but
others are more radically semantic (e.g. works by Jacoboson, Keenan,
and more recently Barker & Shan and Butler, among others). The
workshop will provide a forum to compare and assess these diverse
proposals as well as to present the results of recent linguistic work
to non-linguists.
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© 2003, 2004 LORIA, Carlos Areces. |
2003-11-26
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