Syntactic definitions
(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.
α c-commands β iff
(i) α is a sister of β or
(ii) α is a sister of γ and γ dominates β.
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.
The MinD of a chain formed by adjoining the head Y to the head X is the union of MinD(Y) and MinD(X), excluding projections of Y.
The LF object λ must be built only from the features of the lexicals items of N.
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