Aspects of Binding in Bulgarian

This work investigates reflexive and pronominal binding in Bulgarian within a Government/Binding framework. The investigation is specifically concerned with locality constraints on anaphoric binding and complementarity in the distribution of reflexives and pronominals, and addresses a variety of related issues which have long been problematic for the Binding Theory. The analysis of a range of Bulgarian data indicates that existing formulations of binding domains are descriptively inadequate to the locality constraints operating in Bulgarian. The book proposes a different approach to the problem, incorporating LF movement of reflexives and an entirely new locality constraint: the core binding domain.

Autorentext

The Author: Christo Moskovsky completed an undergraduate degree in English language and linguistics at Sofia University in 1985, and a few years later he also did an M.A. in linguistics at the same university. Between 1993 and 1996 he was a graduate research student at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. In 1997 he was awarded a doctoral degree in linguistics. He has been a linguistics lecturer at Newcastle University since 1999.

Inhalt
Contents: The Binding Theory Locality constraints on anaphora Complementarity in the distribution of reflexives and pronominals Long-Distance reflexives Reflexive and pronominal binding in Bulgarian Condition (B) and language acquisition The Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program.