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Author & Title: Edmund Blair Bolles, Reflexive Anaphora in Attention-Based Syntax, 2016
Abstract: The English language uses reflexive anaphors whenever an action’s subject and object match. Despite the universality of reflexive events, generative syntax requires a special binding theory that makes anaphors seem remarkable. Binding theory itself suffers from arbitrary and ad hoc principles and the need for exemptions from them. An alternate approach known as attention-based syntax requires only one principle to describe the complete use of relative anaphors. The principles are grounded in the psychology of perception and follow naturally from a theory that shifting attention makes language meaningful.
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