LING 3004 Lecture 8: LING 3004 Lecture 8 Oct. 2

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 3004
• Professor: Kumiko Murasugi

Document Summary

2: binding principle a (revised, an anaphor must be bound in its binding domain, binding domain: the clause that contains the np (anaphor, pronoun or r- expression, smallest tp that contains the np. Free in bd (but still bound in the sentence) 1, 7: binding principle b, a pronoun must be free in its binding domain, binding principle c, an r-expression must be free everywhere. The book about [the presidenti] did(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:271)other [hi(cid:373)i]: co-indexed but not c-command so free in bd. [the brother of the presidenti] did(cid:374)(cid:859)t like [hi(cid:373)i]: ungrammatical, c-commands and co-indexes, bound. [the brother of the presidenti] did(cid:374)(cid:859)t like [hi(cid:373)selfi]: must be bound in binding domain, grammatical. [hei] does(cid:374)(cid:859)t like [the preside(cid:374)ti: r-expression must be free, is bound so ungrammatical. Chapter 6: x-bar theory: ps rules capture linear order, hierarchical structure, recursion, ambiguity, etc, however, inadequacy in formulation of ps rules, need more articulated structure levels of structure.