- Title
- Optional movement of Bulgarian possessive clitics to I: some implications for binding theory
- Creator
- Moskovsky, Christo
- Relation
- Balkan syntax and semantics p. 221-233
- Relation
- Linguistik aktuell 67
- Relation
- http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%2067
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Pub.
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2004
- Description
- This paper presents and discusses cases of optional movement of Bulgarian possessive clitics from the containing NP to the head of IP. It is demonstrated that such movement is subject to standard constraints on syntactic movement. The paper also presents sentences in which movement of possessive clitics to I is disallowed, because it leads to binding violations. This is regarded as empirical evidence that locality constraints on binding in Bulgarian apply within narrower boundaries than generally assumed (e.g., under a "governing category" formulation). The author takes a different approach to locality, assuming that the relevant factor determining the range of the binding domain is the (physical) distance between binder and bindee. It is shown that such an approach is better equipped to deal with certain cases of breakdown in complementarity between reflexives and pronominals encoded in Conditions A and B of the Binding Theory.
- Subject
- binding theory; possessive clitics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/28873
- Identifier
- uon:2274
- Identifier
- ISBN:902722790X
- Language
- eng
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