Essays on Anaphora

by H. Lasnik

Overview

The articles collected in this book are concerned with the treatment of anaphora within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Ex­ tended Standard Theory' (EST). Since the inception of this theory, and virtually since the inception of generative grammar, anaphora has been a central topic of investigation. In current research, it has, perhaps, become even more central, as a major focus of study in such areas as syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, and language acquisition. Beginning in the early 1970's, and continuing to the present, Chomsky has developed a comprehensive syntactic theory of anaphora. The articles here are all related to stages in the development of that theory, and can best be understood in relation to that development. For that reason, Chapter 1 presents a historical survey of Chomsky's EST proposals on anaphora, along with brief indications of how the present articles fit into that history. Some of the articles here (e.g. Chapters 4, 8, and 9) proposed extensions of Chomsky's basic ideas to a wider range of phenomena.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556080913
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	02/28/1989
Series:	Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory , #16
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

1 A Selective History of Modern Binding Theory.- 2 The Logical Structure of Reciprocal Sentences in English.- 3 Complement Object Deletion.- 4 Remarks on Coreference.- 5 Disjoint Reference and Wh-Trace.- 6 On Two Recent Treatments of Disjoint Reference.- 7 A Note on Illicit NP Movement.- 8 A Note on Anaphora and Double Objects.- 9 On the Necessity of Binding Conditions.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.