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Syntactic Theory » Focus and Content » Government & Binding (GB) » Binding Theory » Pronouns

Syntactic Theory


Interpretation of pronouns

A pronoun must be free in its governing category; where

(i) the governing category is the minimal domain containing the pronoun, its governor and an accessible subject/SUBJECT;
(ii) free is not bound.

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