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Author(s) -
António Branco
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2001.5
Subject(s) - formalism (music) , computer science , syntax , grammar , head driven phrase structure grammar , formal semantics (linguistics) , natural language processing , linguistics , formal grammar , semantics (computer science) , index (typography) , artificial intelligence , rule based machine translation , programming language , generative grammar , philosophy , art , musical , visual arts
Departing from the exhaustive indexation, syntax-driven approach to binding, we argued for an alternative, semantics-oriented rationale for binding principles. Under this new understanding of the nature of grammatical constraints on anaphoric binding, these principles are viewed as contributing to circumscribe the contextually determined semantic value of anaphoric nominals. This conceptual shift helps to find a fully fledged formal specification of binding principles with the HPSG lean description formalism where these constraints are entered in the grammar as part of the information kept at the lexical entries of anaphoric expressions.