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A Minimalist Account of Balinese Binding
Shannon Bryant and Deniz Satık
486-494 (complete paper or proceedings contents)

Abstract

Wechsler (1999) argues that the distribution of reflexives in Balinese (Austronesian) provides an empirical challenge for GB/Minimalist theories of binding. In simple transitive sentences, promotion of a DP to matrix subject position does not render it a potential antecedent for reflexive binding, suggesting that the landing site for Balinese subjects is an A'-position. But in raising constructions, the raised subject may seemingly bind a reflexive experiencer in the matrix clause, suggesting that subjects rather land in an A-position. Wechsler dubs this apparent paradox the "Balinese Bind." This paper has two goals: first, it presents novel evidence showing that reflexive experiencers are in fact logophoric in Balinese raising constructions, such that no paradox arises. Second, it proposes an analytic account of Balinese reflexive binding that builds on Charnavel's (2020) logophoric A-binder hypothesis.

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Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Robert Autry, Gabriela de la Cruz, Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa, Kristina Mihajlovic, Tianyi Ni, Ryan Smith, and Heidi Harley
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