This article provides an overview of the various means that languages use to represent
interpretive dependencies and reflexive predicates. These means are exemplified on the …

In the psycholinguistic literature it has been proposed that readers and listeners often adopt
a “good-enough” processing strategy in which a “shallow” representation of an utterance …

Almost all current approaches to the binding theory (the conditions that regulate covaluation
between NPs within a sentence) have accepted the view that the binding theory should …

This article provides a functional analysis of the conditions for language to emerge, and
analyzes its role in imagination. It starts with some initial reflections on imagination and its …

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This article presents obligatory control constructions in San Martín Peras Mixtec, a language
in which PRO must be exponed with an overt pronoun. I propose a morphological analysis …

Why do so many languages employ special means to express reflexive predicates, and why
can what languages do be so diverse, although the notion of a reflexive predicate appears …

Abstract Cole, Hermon, and Yanti (2015) present a number of far-reaching conclusions
about language universals on the basis of their study of the anaphoric systems of the …

This article provides an overview of Spanish SE, covering the main empirical facts, analyses
and theoretical issues that it raises, and exploring the prospects to unify all uses–which are …

This contribution offers an analysis of the structural constraints on the interpretation of the
Russian anaphoric expressions sebja and svoj. It accounts for a number of intricate binding …