Long Distance Anaphors an Asian Perspective
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چکیده
A distribution of anaphoric elements roughly like that found in English occurs in languages around the world: There are certain lexical items that occur only with antecedents which ccommand them and which are located in the same local domain (roughly, clause) as the anaphoric elements. In contrast, other anaphoric elements are unable to take c-commanding antecedents within the local domain. The fact that so many genetically unrelated, areally separated and typologically dissimilar languages have anaphoric elements that conform to the same distributional restrictions constitutes convincing support for the view that Binding is determined by principles of universal grammar.
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