Pragmatic reduction of the Binding Conditions revisited

Journal of Linguistics - Tập 27 Số 1 - Trang 107-161 - 1991
Stephen C. Levinson1,2
1Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge
2Language and Cognition Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society

Tóm tắt

In an earlier article (Levinson, 1987b), I raised the possibility that a Gricean theory of implicature might provide a systematic partial reduction of the Binding Conditions; the briefest of outlines is given in Section 2.1 below but the argumentation will be found in the earlier article. In this article I want, first, to show how that account might be further justified and extended, but then to introduce a radical alternative. This alternative uses the same pragmatic framework, but gives an account better adjusted to some languages. Finally, I shall attempt to show that both accounts can be combined by taking a diachronic perspective. The attraction of the combined account is that, suddenly, many facts about long-range reflexives and their associated logophoricity fall into place.

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