Remarks on some minimalist accounts for Binding

Cilene Rodrigues

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2020v73n3p143

Authors

Cilene Rodrigues Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5324-7486

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2020v73n3p143

Abstract

The present paper is a reassessment of the empirical and theoretical arguments presented by some of main minimalist accounts for binding. Some if these accounts assume that the binding principles are conditions on LF representations, others argue that they are derived by narrow syntax computations. Despite that, I present some observations indicating that there is not yet a satisfactory minimalist account for binding. The amounted evidence indicates that binding is derivational. However, pragmatics seems also engaged in building coreferentiality.

Author Biography

Cilene Rodrigues, Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

Deparmento de Letras, adjunct professor

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