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ESSLLI 2004
16th European Summer School in
Logic, Language and Information
Universite Henri Poincare
Nancy, France
9-20 August, 2004
WORKSHOP:
Semantic approaches to binding theory
Binding Theory, which is concerned with sentence-internal constraints on anaphora, was originally (Chomsky 1983) conceived in syntactic terms as conditions on the distribution of indices:
Condition A
Anaphors are locally bound
*Johni thinks that himselfi is clever.
Condition B
Pronominals are locally free
*Hei likes himi.
Condition C
R-expressions are free
*Hei thinks that Johni is clever.
But other researchers have attempted to derive these constraints from lexical semantics or the interpretative procedure rather than the syntax. Some (e.g. Reinhart 1983, Heim 1993, Fox 2000, Buring 2002) add a semantic component to a syntactic core, but others are more radically semantic (e.g. works by Jacoboson, Keenan, and more recently Barker & Shan and Butler, among others). The workshop will provide a forum to compare and assess these diverse proposals as well as to present the results of recent linguistic work to non-linguists.
Note: ESSLLI is the annual summer school of FoLLI, the European Association for Logic, Language and Information.
Posted by Tony Marmo
at 06:25 BST
Updated: Monday, 9 August 2004 08:16 BST
