2012/10/01 by Chris Barker · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
paper · doi:10.1162/ling_a_00108
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Some version of the following claim is almost universally assumed: a quantifier must c-command any pronoun that it binds. Yet as I show, the evidence motivating this claim is not particularly strong. In addition, I gather here a wide variety of systematic counterexamples, some well-known, others new. I conclude that c-command is not relevant for quantificational binding in English (nor is any refinement or extension of c-command).