Abstract We have argued in previous work based on data from English that Principle B is suspended in all those contexts that would allow for an unbounded number of pronouns to occur within a single binding domain. American Sign Language seems to contradict this generalization. We show that these are not true counterexamples as they involve discourse binding rather than syntactic binding. This suggests a profound difference in the mechanisms that mediate binding in English and ASL.
@Misc{AbnerGraf12FEASTposter,
author = {Abner, Natasha and Graf, Thomas},
title = {Binding Complexity and the Status of Pronouns in English
and ASL},
year = {2012},
note = {Poster presented at Formal and Experimental Advances in
Sign Language (FEAST), June 1--2, University of Warsaw,
Warsaw, Poland}
}