Syntactic definitions
From Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus (IcePaHC)
(Hornstein, Nunes, and Grohman 2005)
(i) Principle A: If α is an anaphor, interpret it as coreferential with a c-commandin phrase in its domain.
(ii) Principle B: If β is a pronoun, interpret it as disjoint from every c-commanding phrase in its domain.
(iii) Principle C: If α is an R-expression, interpret it as disjoint from every c-commanding phrase.
C-Command
α c-commands β iff
(i) α is a sister of β or
(ii) α is a sister of γ and γ dominates β.
Equidistance If two positions α and β are in the same MinD, they are equidistant from any other position
Extension Condition Application of Merge can only target root syntactic objects.
αβγ αβγ
