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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Binding and scrambling in Bangla

Sengupta, Gautam 01 January 1990 (has links)
Free word order phenomena in natural language is often attributed to a syntactic movement rule called Scrambling. Currently there is some controversy regarding the nature of this rule. According to the predominant view (Saito (1985), Webelhuth (1989)) Scrambling is A'-movement. According to the alternative view (Mahajan (1987, 1989b)) Scrambling is an instance of WH-movement. The former view is strongly justified by the fact that Scrambling shares a large number of properties with WH-movement (Webelhuth (1989)). The latter view is supported by the fact that Scrambling appears to be immume to weak crossovers effects, and that scrambled elements are able to license anaphors. This study is devoted to reconciling the claim that Scrambling is A'-movement with the aforementioned facts which seem to argue otherwise. A novel theory of binding is developed based on the assumption that both A- and A'-positions may license anaphors, and a novel approach to weak crossover phenomena based on Reinhart's Bound Pronoun Rule is proposed. Interestingly, the same notion of binding turns out to be the crucial element in each theory.

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