Keller, Frank and Ash Asudeh. 2001. Constraints on Linguistic Coreference: Structural vs. Pragmatic Factors. In Johanna D. Moore and Keith Stenning, eds., Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 483-488. Mahawah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Binding theory is the component of grammar that regulates the interpretation of noun phrases. Certain syntactic configurations involving picture noun phrases (PNPs) are problematic for the standard formulation of binding theory, which has prompted competing proposals for revisions of the theory. Some authors have proposed an account based on structural constraints, while others have argued that anaphors in PNPs are exempt from binding theory, but subject to pragmatic restrictions. In this paper, we present an experimental study that aims to resolve this dispute. The results show that structural factors govern the binding possibilities in PNPs, while pragmatic factors play only a limited role. However, the structural factors identified differ from the ones standardly assumed.
@InProceedings{Keller:Asudeh:01,
author = {Frank Keller and Ash Asudeh},
title = {Constraints on Linguistic Coreference: Structural vs. Pragmatic
Factors},
crossref = {COGSCI:01},
pages = {483--488}
}
@Proceedings{COGSCI:01,
editor = {Johanna D. Moore and Keith Stenning},
title = {Proceedings of the 23rd~Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd~Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society},
publisher = {Lawrence Erlbaum},
address = {Mahawah, NJ},
year = 2001
}