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A condition on circular chains: a restatement of i-within-i1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Jack Hoeksema  and
Donna Jo Napoli
Jack Hoeksema
Affiliation:
University of Groningen
Donna Jo Napoli
Affiliation:
Swarthmore College
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Chomsky's (1981) i-within-i condition (also written as i/i) blocks co-indexation of a phrase with one of its proper subconstituents:

(I) *[…a1…]i

We argue here that the i-within-i condition as stated in (I) and used in current work is both empirically inadequate and theoretically incoherent.2 Many of the data that the i-within-i condition has been taken to account for should, instead, be accounted for by a range of unrelated constraints. However, a condition on the interpretation of the reference of free pronominals and anaphors - which we state as a definition of circular chains - is, in fact, motivated and will adequately account for the data involving referential circularity that have previously been accounted for with the i-within-i condition.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , September 1990 , pp. 403 - 424
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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