Pragmatics and the grammar of anaphora: a partial pragmatic reduction of Binding and Control phenomena

1 September 1987

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Linguistics

Vol. 23 (2) , 379-434
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700011324

Abstract

The properties of gaps are intrinsically significant in that the language learner can confront little direct evidence bearing on them, so that it is reasonable to assume that they reflect deeper principles of UG, the biologically determined endowment that will be the primary concern for those interested more in the nature of the human mind than in the arrangement of data in the environment (Chomsky, 1982:19. Some concepts and consequences of the theory of Government and Binding).

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