qu: reconstruction effects

[Joan Bresnan]

See Bresnan 2001, Ch. 13 and particularly the historical note on
p. 301.  Picture nouns are not discussed there, but gerundive and AP phrases
are.  In a nutshell, the structure-sharing of lfg extractions already
entails what are now called "reconstruction effects", as was already
noted in 1980.

J.

> Hello everyone,
>
> are there any recent LFG accounts on binding in picture NPs or did that
> get
> out of focus/grammar? Here an example:
>
> (1) Peter saw a picture of himself/him.
> (2) Peter saw Mary's [who else] picture of himself/him.
>
> (no judgments intended; though Keller & Asudeh clearly show that (1) is
> ok/* and (2) is ok/ok)
>
> I am aware of Asudeh, Keller, Runner et al. on the
> experimental/theoretical
> side and Dalrymple's discussion in her '93 book (I couldn't find anything
> about it in the 2001 book; neither did I see anything about picture NPs in
> Bresnan 2001).
>
> I am especially interested in any discussion of reconstruction effects, as
> in the examples below (we probably won't find reconstruction IN LFG =),
> but
> maybe discussion of it?):*
>
> (3) Which picture of himself/him did Peter buy?
>
> Some people have argued that the acceptability of an anaphor (confirmed by
> an experiment I finished) in (3) is due to reconstruction of the fronted
> wh-phrase in LF. This raises other problems (movement is not compatible
> with certain order effects in which-phrases, Pesetsky 1982, but there are
> problems with the interpretation of which-phrases if not moved, Reinhart
> 1990, etc.). So, some people have suggested something that allows
> anaphoric
> chains to be accessible to binding (e.g. Barss 1986, as cited by Cheng
> 1997). In other words, the whole story isn't that beautiful.
>
> Thx a lot for your attention,
>
> Florian
>
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>
> *Thx to Ash for bringing those examples to my attention.