A condition on circular chains

A restatement of i-within-i

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10141397
AutoresJack Hoeksema (0000-0002-9464-9569, University of Groningen, autor de correspondencia), Donna Jo Napoli (0000-0001-6320-1086, Swarthmore College)
Año1990
Volumen26
Número2
Páginas403-424
Fecha de publicación1990-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022226700014729
OpenAlexW2105323466
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas16

Chomsky's (1981) i-within-i condition (also written as i/i) blocks co-indexation of a phrase with one of its proper subconstituents: (I) *[...a 1 ...] i We argue here that the i-within-i condition as stated in (I) and used in current work is both empirically inadequate and theoretically incoherent. 2 Many of the data that the i-within-i condition has been taken to account for should, instead, be accounted for by a range of unrelated constraints. However, a condition on the interpretation of the reference of free pronominals and anaphors - which we state as a definition of circular chains - is, in fact, motivated and will adequately account for the data involving referential circularity that have previously been accounted for with the i-within-i condition

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