Introduction
摘要
This chapter describes the aim of this book, outlining the main proposals and their consequences. The main purpose of the book is to reformulate binding conditions and other related constraints in the realm of binding theory in terms of a movement theory that is refined and elaborated on the basis of Abe’s (A movement theory of anaphora. De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, 2014) work. The important points of this newly-revised theory are (i) to incorporate various insights of the linking theory developed by Higginbotham (Linguistic Inquiry 14:395–420, 1983) and (ii) to adopt Abe’s (Minimalist syntax for quantifier raising, topicalization and focus movement: A search and float approach for internal merge. Springer, Berlin, 2016) Search and Float framework, in which two kinds of minimality conditions, namely minimal Search and Minimize chain links, play a vital role. The book also discusses some consequences of the proposed movement theory of anaphora, which have to do with Condition C reconstruction, peculiar reconstruction patterns in parasitic gap constructions, the anti-c-command requirement on argument ellipsis, and Condition C reconstruction effects in Japanese scrambling.