JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Linguistic Society of America is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Language. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 128.235.251.160 on Thu, 5 Feb 2015 01:43:52 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions REVIEW ARTICLE Binding and filtering. Edited by FRANK HENY. London: Croom Helm; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. Pp. x, 337. ?16.95; $27.50. Reviewed by DONNA Jo NAPOLI, University of MichiganThis collection opens with a 44-page introduction by Heny, which gives not only an analytical history of how the binding framework developed, but also a more or less thorough discussion of Chomsky's 'On binding' (the first article in the collection) and a rapid, but usually comprehensive discussion of the other seven articles in the book. Heny's introduction thus offers an integrated overview of the material contained here, and renders superfluous part of my job as a reviewer. In order not to duplicate Heny's efforts, I will concentrate on certain particulars of the articles-after first noting who might best benefit from reading them, and how.Although 'On binding' first appeared in 1980, the other papers cannot be found elsewhere, so far as I know. These include one article each on Turkish, Italian, Dutch, French, Welsh, Icelandic, and Quechua. One (that on Quechua) deals primarily with morphology rather than syntax; but all propose filters and/or binding conditions to solve the problems they address. Given Heny's elaborate introduction, the result is a volume which presents a very helpful and insightful picture of a somewhat transitional phase in recent generative theory (these articles were written from approximately 1977 to 1979, and thus are 'caught' between Chomsky & Lasnik 1977 and Chomsky 1980), and of the types of problems and solutions that are debated within that theory. A major point of Heny's is that binding represents a significant change in syntactic theory: while it indeed offers a generative syntax, the 'transformations' in this theory differ in important ways from classical transformations. In this theory, transformations are NOT defined as rules which can be written with the string formalism (with, perhaps, the addition of Boolean conditions on analysability); linear relationships are NOT the only relevant ones; and factors concerning other types of relationships (like domination information and major category boundaries) are NOT built in by way of general principles (governing which analysis must be taken to satisfy a structural description, such as A/A; or governing the domain of a rule, such as the cycle). Instead, the so-called transformations of the binding theory consist of simple statements of change, such as 'Move NP'...
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