This article explains the conditions on the binding of pronouns, simplex anaphors, and
complex anaphors, distinguishing the roles of the computational system, interpretive …

In this work, Ken Safir develops a comprehensive theory on the role of anaphora in syntax.
First, he contends that the complementary distribution of forms that support the anaphoric …

Syntactic theory, in its broadest sense, is concerned primarily with the ways in which
individual lexical items combine to compose hierarchical structures, and with the …

At the beginning of How to Do Things with Words, JL Austin bemoaned the common
philosophical pretense that ''the business of a [sentence] can only be to 'describe'some state …

This book, which represents a revised version of my Ph. D. dissertation, is concerned with
the representation and interpretation of pronominal elements and focuses on issues at the …

Names, descriptions, and demonstratives raise well-known logical, ontological, and
epistemological problems. Perhaps less well known, among philosophers at least, are the …

This dissertation is about the elements that build verbs, the elements that introduce
arguments, and how these elements interact to determine the interpretation of arguments …

I argue that there is only one true anaphor in natural language, which takes many shapes.
Building on the idea that some pronouns are constructed and others are ''natural-born''with …

Subjunctives Page 2806 68 Subjunctives JOSEP QUER 1 Introduction 2 Syntactic transparency
2.1 Obviation 2.2 Long-distance anaphoric binding and NPI-licensing 2.3 Raising 3 Syntactic …

Almost all current approaches to the binding theory (the conditions that regulate covaluation
between NPs within a sentence) have accepted the view that the binding theory should …