Mme Tussaud Meets the Binding Theory

AbstractThis chapter focuses on some phenomena concerning the coding of coreference relations with reflexive pronouns. The issue is the choice between the two following positions: syntactic binding where coreference relations are coded by coindexation in syntax (redundantly with the semantics, where coreference is necessarily theory and semantic + interface theory, where coreference relations are coded in semantics alone) and where the possibility of binding is conditioned by some combination of semantic and syntactic structural conditions (the latter including the Grammatical Function tier). It is argued that the latter approach is correct.