Coordinating and Subordinating Binding Dependencies

Abstract

This chapter focuses on similarities between coordinating and (distant) subordinating binding dependencies. We start from natural language data suggesting such dependencies are established by the same underlying mechanism, e.g., “A collector didn’t buy because she was influenced.” is structurally ambiguous without consequences for the pronominal binding. We compare and contrast four related systems that capture coordinating and subordinating binding dependencies, the first with distinct mechanisms, the others with single mechanisms.