LING 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ico, Reflexive Pronoun, Coreference
17 Dec 2016
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It"s everywhere - whether or not you understand the semantic side of things is a crucial aspect. Reflexive pronoun must be bound in its local domain = she helps herself - you must understand that herself and she are the same person. Something to do with syntax, but mostly semantics. You could say domain is a word - some phonological rules only apply within a word. Because we are talking about syntax though, the domain is larger. There must be a way to formally represent the domain . In this case, the domain is an ip/cp/something like that -- it"s an embedded clause. Definition of domain is important to understand principles a and b. Principle c = r-expression - name, canada, smurf, etc. Binding relies on the definition of c-command , also important to understand what domain is, but also to understand what binding is.
