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Binding (linguistics)

In linguistics, binding is the phenomenon in which anaphoric elements such as pronouns are grammatically associated with their antecedents.[citation needed] For instance, in the English sentence "Mary saw herself", the anaphor "herself" is bound by its antecedent "Mary". Binding can be licensed or blocked in certain contexts or syntactic configurations…

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C-commandPredicatesSubjectObjectPhrase structure grammars
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Binding domains

CommonProperReciprocalClause
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Traditional binding theory: Conditions A, B, and C

Government and Binding TheoryGenerative syntaxProper name
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ReflexivePersonal
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Binding (linguistics)

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