Binding, expletives, and levels

M Den Dikken - Linguistic inquiry, 1995 - JSTOR
… In this squib I present evidence from the domain of the binding properties of expletive there
… with the view that the binding theory applies exclusively at LF. These binding facts will be …

[PDF][PDF] Raising expletives

J Witkos - Poznan studies in contemporary linguistics, 2004 - ifa.amu.edu.pl
… an associate at some grammatical level (say Logical Form, … that support the idea that the
expletive and associate form a … to the issue of the defective binding from the associates. We …

Discourse-related expletives: Challenges and opportunities

H Booth, KA Groothuis - Open Linguistics, 2024 - degruyter.com
… to the interpretation of the clause on the discourse level. As we discuss in this article,
discourse-related expletives have been described for several languages, including German, …

English expletives: A minimalist approach

EM Groat - Linguistic inquiry, 1995 - JSTOR
… objects at the interface levels, must not be visible at … binding theory applies only at LF, then
we expect that an NP, adjoined at LF to an expletive in Spec AgrsP, should be unable to bind

Explaining expl

M Richards, T Biberauer - The function of function words and …, 2008 - degruyter.com
… with, so that the new binding possibilities and wide-scope … As we discuss in Section 2, the
expletive element (henceforth … Assuming the minimal clause-level functional structure given …

Icelandic expletive constructions and the distribution of subject types

ØA Vangsnes - Subjects, expletives, and the EPP, 2002 - books.google.com
… (at the same clausal level), the associate in Icelandic expletive constructions may occur either
… Milsark's account cannot be saved either, since the expletive must bind a variable, and the …

[PDF][PDF] ARE EXPLETIVES IN EXISTENTIAL SENTENCES REALLY EXPLETIVES?

MER MANGIALAVORI - academia.edu
… is, the subject of predication should be explicitated in the FF level as well). On this account,
the expletive hypothesis faces further problems when considering the widely known fact that …

Primitives of binding

E Reuland - Linguistic inquiry, 2001 - direct.mit.edu
level it is easily seen that referential dependence finds a natural expression, and so do semantic
differences between anaphoric expressions. At this level binding can … of expletives. This …

[PDF][PDF] On semantics and the binding theory

EL Keenan - Explaining language universals, 1988 - researchgate.net
This article concerns natural language applications of a formal semantic theory called
Semantic Case Theory (SCT)(Keenan 1987a). Section 2 formally defines the semantic cases (…

Implicit arguments, the binding theory, and control

E Williams - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 1987 - JSTOR
… a theory, a binding theory that governs the binding of theta roles themselves, not … binding
theory. In order to carry this out, we must first define the objects that the principles of the binding