Glossary (all Syntax of Dutch volumes)
Hans Broekhuis, Norbert Corver · Amsterdam University Press eBooks · 2016
Glossary (all SoD volumes) A-and A -binding:An element is bound if it has a °c-commanding antecedent.An element is A-bound if its antecedent occupies an °argument position and A -bound if it occupies a nonargument position.The notion of °binding refers to A-binding in the default case. A-and A -position: See °argument position.A-and A -movement: See °movement. Absolute met-construction:A prepositional phrase headed by the preposition met 'with'.The complement of met consists of a noun phrase and some other category which is predicated of this noun phrase.Some examples are provided in (i); the absolute constructions are in brackets.(i) a. [Met Peter ziek] kunnen we die vergadering niet houden.with Peter ill can we that meeting not hold b. [Met Peter in het ziekenhuis] kunnen we die vergadering niet houden.with Peter in the hospital can we that meeting not hold Accidental coreference:A notion used to refer to the fact illustrated in (ia) that a referential personal pronoun such as hij 'he' may be coreferential with an element used earlier in the discourse without there being a °binding relation between the two.The availability of accidental coreference in (ia) makes it unnecessary to appeal to binding in order to account for the fact that the two elements may be coreferential.(i) a. Jan i lachte.Hij i vond the grap leuk.Jan laughed he found the joke amusing b.Jan i beloofde dat hij i zou komen.Jan promised that he would come It can nevertheless be shown that pronouns can be bound by an antecedent by taking into account referential dependencies between pronouns and quantifiers like iedereen 'everybody' or niemand 'nobody'.Example (iia) shows that accidental coreference is not possible with such quantified expressions.The fact that the pronoun can be referentially dependent on these elements in (iib) shows that binding must be involved.Since the bound pronoun has the function of a variable in predicate calculus, cases like (iib) are known as bound variable constructions.(ii) a. *Iedereen i /Niemand i lachte.Hij i vond the grap (niet) leuk.everybody/nobody laughed he found the joke not amusing b.Iedereen i /Niemand i beloofde dat hij i zou komen.everybody/nobody promised that he would come