On the syntactic-semantic analysis of bound anaphora

  • Authors:
  • Manfred Pinkal

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • EACL '91 Proceedings of the fifth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Two well-known phenomena in the area of pronoun binding are considered: Indirect binding of pronouns by indefinite NPs ("donkey sentences") and surface-syntactic constraints on binding ("weak cross-over"). A common treatment is proposed, and general consequences for the relation between syntactic and semantic processing are discussed. It is argued that syntactic and semantic analysis must interact in a complex way, rather than in a simple sequential or strict rule-to-rule fashion.