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  • Chapter 21 - Binding

  • from Part III - Syntax
  • Edited by Michael T. Putnam, Pennsylvania State University, B. Richard Page, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics
    Published online:
    31 March 2020
    Print publication:
    16 April 2020, pp 493-515

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses anaphoric elements, i.e., reflexive and nonreflexive pronouns, their syntactic distribution, their morphological structure, and how they get their reference (their semantics). While the main goal is to give a descriptive overview, the chapter also introduces two landmark theories proposed to account for the distribution of anaphoric elements: Chomsky’s (1981, 1986) classic Binding Theory and Reinhart and Reuland’s (1993) “Reflexivity” approach. The initial concern is with the basic complementarity of reflexive and nonreflexive pronouns in English and German but also with certain instances of noncomplementarity, including logophoric uses of reflexive pronouns in English. The chapter then deals with anaphoric elements in Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic, focusing on so-called SELF versus SE anaphors, and, where applicable, also on possessive reflexives. Special attention is paid to the comparison between Dutch zichzelf and German sich (selbst).