Binding as an A'-phenomenon?: Some remarks from Turkish

Abstract

This article argues against the morpheme speci#city of Binding "eory conditions in terms of pronoun-anaphor complementarity and proposes a tripartite system for the language at issue, Turkish. Focusing on the locality-based problems of Condition A and B in terms of anaphor and pronoun binding, the article claims that binding of an anaphor can be explained as an A’-phenomenon. "e empty topic operator merges with the anaphor and moves to the C-domain. "e stranded anaphor inside the clause is licensed by the empty operator via an A’-chain and the lexical antecedent of the anaphor plays no licensing role.