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<p>On reflexives and other anaphoric pronouns, I would point to the
following recent works (the last three of them rather generative):</p>
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<div class="csl-entry"><font size="2">Cole, Peter & Hermon,
Gabriella & Yanti. 2015. Grammar of binding in the
languages of the world: Innate or learned? <i>Cognition</i>
141. 138–160. (doi:<a
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<div class="csl-entry"><font size="2">Janic, Katarzyna &
Puddu, Nicoletta & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). 2023. <i>Reflexive
constructions in the world’s languages</i>. Berlin: Language
Science Press. (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/284">https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/284</a>)<br>
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<div class="csl-entry"><font size="2">Middleton, Hannah Jane.
2020. <i>*ABA syncretism patterns in pronominal morphology</i>.
<i>Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).</i>
London: UCL (University College London). (PhD thesis.) (<a
href="https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10105591/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10105591/</a>)<br>
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<div class="csl-entry"><font size="2">Müller, Stefan. 2021.
Anaphoric binding. In Müller, Stefan & Abeillé, Anne &
Borsley, Robert D. & Koenig, Jean-Pierre (eds.), <i>Head-driven
Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook</i>. Berlin: Language
Science Press. (<a
href="https://hpsg.hu-berlin.de/Projects/HPSG-handbook/"
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<div class="csl-entry"><font size="2">Varaschin, Giuseppe. 2021. <i>A
Simpler Syntax of anaphora</i>. Florianópolis: Universidade
Federal de Santa Catarina. (PhD thesis.) (<a
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<p>But this literature is not easy to get into, and I find the very
notion of "binding" confused (it seems to presuppose the notion of
c-command, which is based on tree structures that are themselves
often argued for on the basis of certain anaphoric constructions).</p>
<p>It seems that Hornstein's (2024) book continues to assume that
the generalizations of the GB [Government-Binding] era (the 1980s)
were basically right. Compare this instructive 2018 blog post,
where he says that "GB provided the first outlines of what a
plausible [UG] might look like, one that had grounding in facts
about actual [grammars]":
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://facultyoflanguage.blogspot.com/2018/09/generative-grammars-chomsky-problem.html">https://facultyoflanguage.blogspot.com/2018/09/generative-grammars-chomsky-problem.html</a>.
Beyond that, Hornstein does not seem to have taken an interest in
research on cross-linguistic diversity.</p>
<p>Levinson (1987; 1991; 2000) has of course pointed out that the
complementarity that Hornstein presupposes is far from universal.<br>
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<p>Martin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26.03.24 10:04, Adam James Ross
Tallman via Lingtyp wrote:<br>
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all,</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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apologize for the long title and obtuse topic :) <br>
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recent book praising the new advances of minimalist syntax
Hornstein called <i>The Merge Hypothesis</i> states</div>
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style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:#4c1130">"Cross-linguistic
work on binding has shown the complementary distribution of
reflexives and bound pronouns to be robust across natural
languages, and so deriving the complementarity has become a
boundary condition on the empirical adequacy of binding
theories." (p.24)</div>
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this comment somewhat surprising because I thought
noncomplementarity between pronouns and reflexives had been
shown by Levinson (see "Pragmatic reduction of the binding
principles revisited") at least in some cases ... ?<br>
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suppose though that this comment implicitly discards
"marginal" or "peripheral" cases. As we all know there is a
well established methodology for discarding outlier cases, and
so we need not worry at all.<br>
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I'm interested in the following:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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on the (non)complementarity of reflexives and pronouns in
languages apart from English.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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Typological (more than one language) work on this question
showing how the domains that licit pronouns and reflexives
should be established. <br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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Schiller Universität<br>
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