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Leonard, Laurence B., and Diane Frome Loeb. "Government-Binding Theory and Some of Its Applications." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 31, no. 4 (December 1988): 515–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/jshr.3104.515.

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Government-Binding Theory is the dominant theory of grammar in present-day linguistics, and is receiving increasing attention from investigators of normal and disordered language behavior. This paper serves as a general introduction to the theory and provides a number of examples of its application.

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AMANO, MASACHIYO. "ON THE GOVERNMENT-BINDING THEORY AND DERIVED NOMINALS." ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 3 (1986): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.3.1.

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Whaley, Lindsay J., and Gert Webelhuth. "Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program." Language 73, no. 4 (December 1997): 856. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/417336.

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Pulvermüller, Friedemann. "What Neurobiology Can Buy Language Theory." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 17, no. 1 (March 1995): 73–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263100013772.

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In their paper on Universal Grammar, language acquisition, and neurobiology, Eubank and Gregg (1995) attack current attempts to specify the neurobiological correlates of language acquisition. While these authors address a large variety of topics, they make two major assertions that call for brief discussion.First, they believe that some neurobiological accounts of language acquisition must be rejected because the authors of these accounts “give no evidence of knowing what it is that needs to be explained” (p. 53). Eubank and Gregg argue that only a language acquisition theory rooted in Government and Binding theory can be the basis of a neurobiological account of language acquisition. Government and Binding theory must be chosen because, according to these authors, it is the only welldeveloped theory of linguistic competence. To put it in a nutshell, “It is [language] acquisition theory that sets the problems for neurobiology to solve” (p. 53), and acquisition theory must conform to the Government and Binding approach. This master-and-slave view of the relationship between linguistics and biology is hard to accept, especially if one considers what Eubank and Gregg have to say about the master: Like most generative linguists, they do not hesitate to emphasize that the only well-developed linguistic theory is "not complete, of course, not yet correct in all or even most of its details, and perhaps not even in some of its fundamentals" (p. 51). It is inadequate to postulate that such a potentially insufficient construct must necessarily form the basis of biological research. This strategy may be unproductive, especially if theory-internal assumptions turn out to be wrong.

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Beukema, Frits, and Peter Coopmans. "A Government-Binding perspective on the imperative in English." Journal of Linguistics 25, no. 2 (September 1989): 417–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002222670001416x.

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Culicover (1976:152) states that ‘the imperative is an idiosyncratic construction in most languages’. One of the aims of this article is to show that as far as this construction in the English language is concerned, this is an overstatement if we give careful consideration to the structural properties of this construction in a restrictive framework such as Government-Binding theory. Given the proposals in current generative grammar concerning the relations between COMP, INFL, V and their corresponding projections, it is worth investigating what the syntactic representation of the imperative may look like.

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Owen, Marion, and Noam Chomsky. "Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding." Modern Language Review 81, no. 3 (July 1986): 687. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3729191.

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Bender, M. Lionel. "ELIZABETH A. COWPER. A concise introduction to syntactic theory (The government-binding approach)." WORD 45, no. 1 (April 1, 1994): 53–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00437956.1994.12098341.

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Jacobsen, Bent. "(Tomme) NPer i moderne generativ syntaktisk teori (1. del)." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 1, no. 1 (July 17, 2015): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v1i1.21338.

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The present paper takes its point of departure in the concept of empty NP-categories, as this is embodied in a more comprehensive theory of NPs. The theoretical framework adopted is mainly that expouned in Chomsky: Lextures on Government and Binding (1981) and subsequent works (though no attempt has been made to incorporate the revised model presented in Chomsky: Barriers (1986)). The paper gives a brief introduction to the main modules of a modern generative grammar (X-bar syntax;0-theory; government (including proper government and the Extended Empty Category Principle); the theory of abstract Case; the theory of Binding; and the theory of Bouding). The paper falls into two parts. In the first part the basic modules and principles are introduced. In the second part, to be published in the next issue of Hermes, it will be shown how these modules interact in the derivation of sentences. Particular attention will be paid to NP-Movement and Wh-Movement. A separate section will deal with the status of PRO. The full bibliography appears after both parts.

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Jacobsen, Bent. "(Tomme) NPer i moderne generativ syntaktisk teori (2. del)." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 1, no. 2 (July 17, 2015): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v1i2.21352.

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The present paper takes its point of departure in the concept of empty NP-categories, as this is embodied in a more comprehensive theory of NPs. The theoretical framework adopted is mainly that expouned in Chomsky: Lextures on Government and Binding (1981) and subsequent works (though no attempt has been made to incorporate the revised model presented in Chomsky: Barriers (1986)). The paper gives a brief introduction to the main modules of a modern generative grammar (X-bar syntax;0-theory; government (including proper government and the Extended Empty Category Principle); the theory of abstract Case; the theory of Binding; and the theory of Bouding). The paper falls into two parts. In the first part the basic modules and principles are introduced. In the second part, to be published in the next issue of Hermes, it will be shown how these modules interact in the derivation of sentences. Particular attention will be paid to NP-Movement and Wh-Movement. A separate section will deal with the status of PRO. The full bibliography appears after both parts.

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Ernst, Thomas. "The Syntax of Adverbials." Annual Review of Linguistics 6, no. 1 (January 14, 2020): 89–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011619-030334.

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After explicit phrase structure rules were abandoned in government–binding theory, some account of the distribution of adverbials became necessary. This review surveys two current theories. The first, often called the scopal theory, posits that the main factor is semantics: In general, adverbials can appear wherever they cause no violation of semantic well-formedness. Purely syntactic and morphological factors play a role, but it is a relatively minor one. Though the scopal theory predicts a significant range of adverbial distribution correctly, much of its underlying semantic analysis remains to be developed in explicit terms. The second theory discussed in this review, the cartographic theory, takes syntax as central, proposing that adverbials are individually licensed by dedicated functional heads, arranged in a rigid hierarchy by Universal Grammar. This approach has some empirical successes but also a number of problems; thus, the scopal theory is more likely to represent the right direction.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Government-binding theory (Linguistics)"

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Macias, Benjamin. "An incremental parser for government-binding theory." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251511.

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Gamon, Michael. "The derivational formation of chain-links : minimalism and binding theory /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8416.

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Nakamura, Masanori 1966. "Move a, scope, and relativized minimality." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56651.

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This thesis deals with two aspects of operators within the framework of Government and Binding theory; (i) how they are assigned their scope, and (ii) how they are licensed. In an attempt to answer these questions, the relation of Move $ alpha$ (such as scrambling, NP-movement, and wh-movement) to the scope of operators and the licensing of wh-elements, negative polarity items, and adverbs are examined. It is argued that scope assignment is dictated by the Scope Principle and the Empty Category Principle. It is also argued that licensing of operators is determined by the Feature-Dependent Item Criterion. These principles and criterion make use of the concept of Government Theory Compatibility, which is built into Relativized Minimality. It is suggested that this concept should be characterized in terms of a set of lexical features. The approach advocated here accounts for the interpretive and distributional behavior of operators without recourse to parameterization of LF principles.

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Kim, Kwang-Sup. "A theta binding approach to quantification in English." [Seoul, Korea] : Dept. of English, Graduate School, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/26153714.html.

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Barss, Andrew. "Chains and anaphoric dependence : on reconstruction and its implications." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8833.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1986.
Includes bibliographical references (v. 3, leaves 575-581).
This thesis is concerned with developing an account within the Government and Binding (GB) theory of the grammaticality of such structures as (1), and exploring the implications of this account for the theory of empty categories, chains, and scope. The hallmark characteristic of such grammatical S-Structure representations as (1) is that the anaphor is outside the c-command domain of its understood antecedent. The basic anaphoric effect is termed connectivity. 1) [which of each other's friends][did the men see t]? Chapter 1 is a brief overview of the necessary definitions presumed in the thesis, and an outline of the subsequent chapters. Chapter 2 introduces a large body of data which must be treated on a par with (1), and reviews and criticizes several existing proposals which have been made to account for (1). The chapter argues that the binding theory must apply to structures having the essential form of (1). We demonstrate that no treatment which involves lowering the anaphor into the c-command domain of the antecedent via "reconstruction" operations, or involves applying the Binding Theory at a level at which WH movement is not represented, can be maintained. Chapter 3 develops a revision of the binding theory, focusing on Condition A, which is capable of treating all the connectivity data in a unified way. The major formal construct proposed in the chapter is the chain accessibility sequence, essentially a path of nodes through which the potential antecedents for an expression are accessed. The revised binding theory is defined in terms of such sequences; as the name implies, the notion chain plays a prominent role. This approach to connectivity is developed in the spirit of the Path theory of Kayne (1983) and Pesetsky (1982). We also discuss properties of structures of the form of {l), but where the constituent containing the anaphor is predicative in nature. We shall see that the predicative nature of the constituent significantly constrains the possibilities of assigning the anaphor an antecedent. This chapter adopts, and argues in favor of, the Linking theory of binding introduced by Higginbotham (1983). Chapter 4 focuses on the theory of empty categories, arguing that it is desirable to construct the theory so that no empty categories bear binding features (the features[+/- anaphoric] and[+/- pronominal] are thus restricted to overt categories). This proposal, which I term the No Features Hypothesis, departs from the characteristic treatment of ECs in GB theory. The chapter adopts Brody's (1985) proposals concerning the distribution of PRO and NP-trace. We adopt, and later extend, the Local Binding Condition (LBC) on A chains, argued by Rizzi (1982) to constrain the well-formedness of A chains. We reformulate it in terms of Linking theory, as the Chain Obviation Condition (CCC), and argue that it holds of all chain types. This is shown to be a principle with considerable generality, subsuming the LBC, Condition C of the binding theory, and the anti-c-command condition on linking. Adopting the COC, along with the NFH, allows the elimination of the class R-expression from the inventory of binding types. It will be shown that the anti-c-command condition on parasitic gaps derives directly from the CCC, with no stipulations. The chapter concludes with a defense of the proposal that the theory of anaphora must recognize anaphoric dependence and obviation as separate relations (as argued by Lasnik (1976), (1981), and Higgginbotham (1985)). Chapter 5 discusses constraints on the interpretation of sentences in which a quantificational NP is the antecedent of an NP-trace which it does not c-command. These considerations lead us to formulate a constraint on movement operations. The chapter also argues that the operations of WH-movement and QR are strictly ordered in the LF component.
by Andrew Barss.
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Tellier, Christine. "Universal licensing : implications for parasitic gap constructions." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75902.

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This dissertation investigates, within a Government-Binding framework, the licensing mechanisms which regulate the distribution of sentence-internal constituents. It is proposed that the licensing requirements apply across components, in the spirit of the Projection Principle of Chomsky (1981). Under the extended view of licensing proposed here ("Universal Licensing"), maximal projections must comply with the appropriate licensing requirements at every syntactic level of representation.
This allows for a more constrained model of grammar, under which a number of facts follow in a principled way; this is the case particularly with respect to constructions involving null operators. Thus, from the D- and S-Structure conditions on null operator licensing, we derive the cross-linguistic as well as the language-internal distribution of resumptive pronouns. Furthermore, some of the well-known, but so far stipulated, constraints on parasitic gap (PG) constructions are shown to follow from general principles: we explain for instance the fact that PGs must be sanctioned at S-Structure, as well as the inability of adjunct movement to license PGs.
The consequences of Universal Licensing on the distribution of PGs are examined with particular reference to adnominal PGs in French genitival relatives. It is shown that the properties displayed by these little-studied ("double dont") constructions, in conjunction with the Universal Licensing Principle, shed significant light on a number of issues, among which the thematic structure of nominals, and the nature of the locality constraints on null operator identification.

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Fox, Daniel. "Scrambling and extraction constraints in Dari : GB and RRG analyses /." Amherst, Mass. : [s.n.], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10009/301.

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Salome, Margaret. "On the interaction between aspect and arbitrary null objects : evidence from Spanish /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8427.

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Yamada, Masaru. "A study of the Japanese reflexive pronouns zibun and zibun-zisin." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=400.

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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 1999.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 54 p. : ill. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-53).

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Davis, Henry. "The acquisition of the English auxiliary system and its relation to linguistic theory." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26987.

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This thesis explores the connection between linguistic theory, as embodied in a version of the Government - Binding (GB) model of syntax, and the parameter-setting theory of language acquisition. In Chapter 2, it is argued that by incorporating the criterion of epistemological priority, syntactic theory can move closer towards becoming a plausible model of language acquisition. A version of GB theory is developed which adopts this criterion, leading to several modifications, including the derivation of X-bar theory from more "primitive" grammatical sub-components, and a revision of the Projection Principle. This model is converted into a procedure for phrase-structure acquisition, employing sets of Canonical Government Configurations and Percolation Principles to map Case- and θ-relations onto phrase-structure trees. The chapter ends with a discussion of the "missing-subject" stage in the acquisition of English. Chapter 3 concerns auxiliaries. It is argued that parametric variation in auxiliary systems can be reduced to levels of association between INFL and V. The question of irregularity is dealt with through the Designation Convention of Emonds (1985), which makes a distinction between open- and closed- class grammatical elements, and a Parallel Distributed Processing model of learning. The last part of the chapter investigates the learning of the English auxiliary system, and in particular the errors known as "auxiliary overmarking". Chapter 4 investigates the syntax of Subject Auxiliary Inversion (SAI)-type rules. An account of inversion is developed based on the theory of predication, in which inversion-inducing elements are treated as "A'-type" subjects which must be linked to AGR in order to satisfy conditions on Predicate-licensing. A parametrization is developed based on the cross-linguistic examination of SAI-type rules. Chapter 5 concerns the acquisition of SAI. It is argued that there are no invariant "stages" in the development of inversion; rather, a proportion of children misanalyze (WH + contracted auxiliary) sequences as (WH + AGR-clitic) sequences and formulate grammars in which SAI is unnecessary. A "two-tiered" theory of syntactic acquisition is proposed to account for the observed developmental patterns.
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Books on the topic "Government-binding theory (Linguistics)"

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Büring, Daniel. Binding theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Haegeman, Liliane M. V. Introduction to government and binding theory. Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, 1991.

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Sadler, Louisa. Welsh syntax: A government-binding approach. London: Croom Helm, 1988.

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Sadler, Louisa. Welsh syntax: A government-binding approach. London: Croom Helm, 1988.

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Chomsky, Noam. Lectures on government and binding: The Pisa lectures. 5th ed. Dordrecht: Foris, 1988.

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Chomsky, Noam. Lectures on government and binding: The Pisa lectures. 5th ed. Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications, 1988.

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He, Yuanjian. An introduction to government-binding theory in Chinese syntax. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1996.

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Yang, Tong-hwi. Chibae-kyŏlsok iron ŭi kichʻo. Sŏul Tʻŭkpyŏlsi: Sinasa, 1989.

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M, Kruijff Geert-Jan, and Oehrle Richard T, eds. Resource-sensitivity, binding, and anaphora. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

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Cowper, Elizabeth A. An introduction to syntactic theory: The government-binding approach. [Toronto: University of Toronto Press], 1986.

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Perez, Carolyn Harford. "14. The Shona Passive and Government-Binding Theory." In Publications in African Languages and Linguistics, edited by Gerrit J. Dimmendahl, 179–90. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110883350-015.

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Klein, Wolfgang. "Government-binding." In Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory, 169. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lald.2.11kle.

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De Geest, Wim, and Dany Jaspers. "1. Government and Binding Theory." In Linguistic Theory and Grammatical Description, 23. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.75.03deg.

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Lasnik, Howard. "On a Lexical Parameter in the Government-Binding Theory." In Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 163–71. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6859-3_7.

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Harris, Randy Allen. "Twentieth Century Linguistics at Closing Time." In The Linguistics Wars, 261–300. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199740338.003.0008.

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This chapter appraises the state of linguistics at the end of the twentieth century in the wake of the Generative/Interpretive Semantics episode. The period saw a huge upswing in Noam Chomsky’s influence with the dominance of his Government and Binding/Principles and Parameters model, but also the development of multiple other competing and intersecting formal models, all of which did away with Chomsky’s totemic concept, the transformation: Relational Grammar (RG), Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG), and so many more that Frederick Newmeyer tagged the lot of them Alphabet Grammars (AGs). Alongside these frameworks came George Lakoff’s most far-reaching and influential development, with philosopher, Mark Johnson, “Conceptual Metaphor Theory” (a label the author rejects).

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"Nonconfigurationality, Movement, and Sinhala Focus." In Studies in South Asian Linguistics, edited by James W. Gair and Barbara C. Lust, 50–64. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195095210.003.0005.

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Abstract It has been claimed that nonconfigurational languages (W* or X*) do not involve syntactic movement and, further, that the absence of movement in these languages follows in fact from fundamental properties of nonconfigurationality (Hale 1978 et seq; Chomsky 1981: 128). The absence of movement in these languages causes a problem for their incorporation into a theory such as the Revised Extended Standard Theory in its Government and Binding (GB) version, which treats processes such as WH-question formation, relativization, passivization, and causativization in terms of movement (Chomsky 1981: passim). Even if such processes are treated as not involving movement (e.g., Chomsky’s “assume GP” treatment for passive and caus ative in Japanese), there is still a problem if these processes appear to be subject to constraints that within the theory are characterized as constraints on syntactic movement-for example, subjacency.

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"On Distinguishing AGR from agr: Evidence from South Asia, With Kashi Wali." In Studies in South Asian Linguistics, edited by James W. Gair and Barbara C. Lust, 140–52. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195095210.003.0010.

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Abstract In current linguistic theory, verb agreement has played an important role. Various interactions between agreement and other aspects of the grammar have been claimed, and agreement has been assigned crucial roles in the grammar going well beyond its traditional subject-identifying function. Within Government and Binding theory in particular (as represented in Chomsky 1982, 1986a, and 1986b), verb agreement in finite clauses has been identified with an AGR element within INFL(ection), governing and assigning case to the subject, with which it is coindexed. Thus, according to Chomsky: The agreement element of INFL is associated (we have assumed, co-indexed) with the subject, which it governs, since they share all maximal projections, and assigns it nominative case. (I 986a: 188) Given the crucial role played in tum by case in determining the possible occurrence of NPs and the nature and occurrence of empty categories, this function of AGR plays a central role in the grammar.

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Seuren, Pieter A. M. "A problem in English subject-complementation †." In A View of Language, 250–66. Oxford University PressOxford, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199244812.003.0010.

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Abstract In this chapter I present a particular problem for the grammatical description and explanation of subject complementation in English. This problem has so far not found a solution in any of the current theories of grammar, in particular the theory of Government and Binding. I also present a principled solution of this problem, in terms of the theory of Semantic Syntax. The problem, and the essence of its solution, were presented by me in a talk at the MIT Linguistics Department almost twenty years ago. On that occasion, the audience, or at least those who set the tone for the audience, were unwilling to accept the reality of the problem, and thus even less willing to consider the solution proposed. One reason for this negative attitude, I felt at the time, was probably the fact that both the problem and the solution offered were awkward for the theoretical orientation which was then beginning to be developed, in particular X-bar theory. This awkwardness has remained: the problem has so far proved refractory in terms of MIT-based theory, and the solution is at loggerheads with X-bar theory, now as then.

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Ravin, Yael. "A Restrictive versus a Non-Restrictive Approach." In Lexical Semantics without Thematic Roles, 7–20. Oxford University PressOxford, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198248316.003.0002.

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Abstract Various theories and proposals concerning thematic roles and their place in linguistic theory are being formed and revised currently, making it difficult to select the ones to address in a book such as this. Four theories were chosen here. Two of them posit thematic roles as the primitive basis for the generation of syntactic structures: Fillmore’s Case Theory, dating back to the late 1960s, provides historical perspective on this approach; while Chomsky’s Government and Binding Theory is the current origin for the newly revived interest in thematic roles.

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Vikner, Sten. "Relativised Minimality." In Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages, 11–35. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195083934.003.0002.

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Abstract For reasons of space, it is not possible to include a general introduction to the linguistic theory that I presuppose in the following chapters, the so-called principles and parameters model (also known as the theory of government and binding). For readers who would like such an introduction, I recommend the consultation of an introductory textbook such as Haegeman (1991), or alternatively Cook (1988), Fanselow & Felix (1987a,b), Lasnik & Uriagereka (1988), or Radford (1988).

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