jlr Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi 1300-8552 2587-0939 Dilbilim Derneği 10.18492/dad.436226 Binding in Turkish Nominal Phrases and Phase-Sliding Özgen Murat DOKUZ EYLÜL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ 12 26 2019 30 2 145 170 06 25 2018 10 04 2019 Copyright © 1990, Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi 1990 Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi

There are studieswithin literature which claim that nominal phrases such as DPs also constitutephases in addition to v*Ps and CPs(Chomsky, 2006; Hiraiwa, 2005; Marantz, 2007; Ott, 2008 and Svenious, 2004among others). Every phase is subject to a strict locality condition, i.e.Phase Impenetrability Condition (Chomsky, 2001), which forms an opaque domainfor external probes. As one of the phenomenon subject to this strict locality,anaphor binding is allowed only within a given phase, since each phase is alocal domain for the binding to occur. However, binding in Turkish CPs and DPsbehave differently from each other. While the former allows only local reflexivebinding, the latter allows distant reflexive binding as well. If DPs are alsoassumed to be phases, then they must not allow distant reflexive binding. Iclaim that this problem is an extension of an operation referred to as phase-sliding. It is an operation that extends the phase boundary bypushing up the borders of a spell-out domain (Gallego, 2010). It occurs when aphase head H0 is raised to another head X0 to form acomplex [H0+X0]. This study aims to show that thisoperation accounts for the asymmetry between the binding behaviors of the twophases, i.e. DPs and CPs.

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