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Within unilevel theories of grammar like Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, there has been considerable attention paid to the development of a coherent theory of Feature Percolation. Within Government and Binding Theory, however, this matter has received less attention. In this paper, we argue that the incorporation within GBT of a simple set of principles governing Feature Percolation provides a general treatment of diverse phenomena. We concentrate on how a theory of Feature Percolation can simplify various aspects of the description of long distance reflexives in Chinese, Korean and other languages.
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This paper is one of a number of works reporting on research on long distance reflexives and related topics carried out by Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon, and Li-May Sung at the University of Delaware. The authors each participated equally in the preparation of the papers. The order of names does not represent greater or lesser participation in the papers or the research on which they are based.
Earlier versions of this work have been presented to a variety of audiences, among them the linguistic colloquia of SUNY Buffalo and UCLA, the Hungarian National Academy of Sciences, the Jersey Syntax Circle, the Linguistic Research Seminar of the University of Geneva, and the Workshop on East Asian Linguistics (University of California at Irvine). Among the many individuals whose comments have contributed to our understanding, we would particularly like to thank Janet Dean Fodor, Wayne Harbert. Arild Hestvik, Jim Huang, Istvan Kenesei, Audrey Li, Robert May, K. P. Mohanan, Jerry Morgan, Dick Oehrle, Tanya Reinhart, Ken Safir, Sue Steele, Luigi Rizzi, Ian Roberts, Tim Stowell, Sten Vikner, Raffaella Zanuttini, and the anonymous E A L referees. Special thanks go to James Yoon, with whom we discussed many of the issues in this paper extensively. Our discussion of Korean is largely adapted from his analyses and those of J.-M. Yoon. We would also like to thank Chengchi Wang for his comments and for his help in preparing the manuscript for publication. The research reported here was supported in part by funds from the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Delaware and by the National Science Foundation, grant number BNS-9121167.
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Cole, P., Hermon, G. & Sung, LM. Feature Percolation. J East Asian Linguis 2, 91–118 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01440584
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