Open AccessBinding reconstruction and two modes of copy-chain interpretation
Author(s) -
Kenyon Branan,
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
proceedings of the linguistic society of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2473-8689
DOI - 10.3765/plsa.v6i1.5008
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , movement (music) , chain (unit) , crossover , reflexivity , computer science , natural language processing , mathematics , communication , linguistics , artificial intelligence , physics , psychology , philosophy , sociology , quantum mechanics , acoustics , social science
We present a theory for the interpretation of Ā-movement chains at LF in the copy theory of movement where the NP restrictor of a DP Ā-movement chain is interpreted in only one copy. Such a view is motivated for English by evidence from reflexive binding, building on observations in Barss 1986, and its interaction with parasitic gap licensing and weak crossover effects. Our approach offers a means for understanding the classification of Ā-movement types in Cinque 1990 and Postal 1994 in copy-theoretic terms.