Binding and co-reference

Abstract

There is a fair amount of variation between and within the Scandinavian varieties with respect to binding, anaphors and co­reference restrictions on pronouns and noun phrases. The variation between the languages has been discussed and analyzed in e.g. Holmberg and Platzack (1995) and Thráinsson (2008), and more fine­grained variation within the languages has been discussed by e.g. Tania Strahan (see Strahan 2003, 2011), Helge Lødrup (2009) and Björn Lundquist (2012). In NALS, five chapters are dedicated to binding and coreference, which all build on the results from the ScanDiaSyn­survey as they appear in the Nordic Syntax Database (Lindstad et al 2009):