c-command
Sign in to saveIn generative grammar and related frameworks, a node in a parse tree c-commands its sister node and all of its sister's descendants. In these frameworks, c-command plays a central role in defining and constraining operations such as syntactic movement, binding, and scope. Tanya Reinhart introduced c-command in 1976 as a key component of her theory of anaphora. The term is short for "constituent command".
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23 sectionsContents
- Definition and examples
- Standard Definition
- Where c-command is used
- Standard Definition
- Syntax Tree
- Definite Anaphora
- [[Binding (linguistics)|Binding Theory]]
- Quantificational Binding
- History
- Stage 1: Coreference
- Stage Two: Dominance
- Criticism and Alternatives
- Bruening's take on c-command
- Barker's input on c-command
- Wuijts' response to Barker's work
- Cho's investigation of Chomsky's binding theory
- Implications
- Memory
- Autism
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
In generative grammar and related frameworks, a node in a parse tree c-commands its sister node and all of its sister's descendants. In these frameworks, c-command plays a central role in defining and constraining operations such as syntactic movement, binding, and scope. Tanya Reinhart introduced c-command in 1976 as a key component of her theory of anaphora. The term is short for "constituent command".
==Definition and examples==