Dissolving Binding Theory

• Novel approach to a classical issue at the syntax semantics interface
• Lucidly written
• Thorough empirical coverage

Readership: Linguists interested in syntax and semantics from advanced undergraduate level upwards.

Johan Rooryck, Professor of French Linguistics, Leiden University, and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd, Professor of General and English Linguistics, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel

Johan Rooryck is Professor of French Linguistics at Leiden University. He is the executive editor of Lingua (Elsevier), and an associate editor of the Linguistic Variation Yearbook (Benjamins). He has previously published Configurations of sentential complementation (Routledge, 2000).

Guido Vanden Wyngaerd is Professor of General and English Linguistics at the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel. He has previously published PRO-legomena: Distribution and reference of infinitival subjects (1994, De Gruyter).

1: Introduction
2: Binding, Agree, and the Elsewhere Principle
3: The Syntax of Simplex Reflexives
4: Self-Reflexives as Floating Quantifiers
5: Extending the Analysis
6: The Semantics of Simplex and Complex Reflexives: the case of zich and zichzelf
7: The Syntax of Spatial Anaphora
8: Conclusion
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