This chapter summarizes what was argued in this book. Most importantly, I developed a new movement theory of anaphora that builds mainly on Abe’s (A movement theory of anaphora. De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, 2014) original one and incorporates Higginbotham’s (Linguistic Inquiry 14:395–420, 1983) insights on binding theory. This movement theory was couched under 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, according to which Search must be minimal (i.e., minimal Search) and Float is subject to Minimize chain links. As a result, traditional Binding Conditions A, B, and C, as proposed by Chomsky (Lectures on government and binding, Foris, 1981), are absorbed into this movement theory. This book also dealt with reconstruction effects, especially Condition C reconstruction effects, including strong crossover cases, under our movement theory. The book also discussed a variety of consequences of our movement theory of anaphora: backward binding, copy reflexivization, binding condition reconstruction effects in parasitic gap constructions, Condition C reconstruction in scrambling, and the anti-c-command requirement on argument ellipsis.

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  • Jun Abe

摘要

This chapter summarizes what was argued in this book. Most importantly, I developed a new movement theory of anaphora that builds mainly on Abe’s (A movement theory of anaphora. De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, 2014) original one and incorporates Higginbotham’s (Linguistic Inquiry 14:395–420, 1983) insights on binding theory. This movement theory was couched under 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, according to which Search must be minimal (i.e., minimal Search) and Float is subject to Minimize chain links. As a result, traditional Binding Conditions A, B, and C, as proposed by Chomsky (Lectures on government and binding, Foris, 1981), are absorbed into this movement theory. This book also dealt with reconstruction effects, especially Condition C reconstruction effects, including strong crossover cases, under our movement theory. The book also discussed a variety of consequences of our movement theory of anaphora: backward binding, copy reflexivization, binding condition reconstruction effects in parasitic gap constructions, Condition C reconstruction in scrambling, and the anti-c-command requirement on argument ellipsis.