Binding without Hierarchies
Stefan Riezler · 1995
The aim of this paper is to show that current HPSG binding theory (and similarly other binding approaches en coding asymmetries explicitly) is inadequate with regard to describing binding variabilities in local binding contexts. This inadequacy stems mainly from the usage of too restrictive and order-independent obliqueness ba sed hierarchies as constraints on possible binders and bindees. We propose binding constraints to be directly implemented as path equations/path in-equations in thematic relation sorts. This allows a more fine-grained des cription of local binding symmetries and asymmetries via a mo dular interplay of general binding conditions on thematic arguments together with linear precedence constraints on certain anaphoric elements. 1.