Object Coreference in German: The Reflexive sich as a Problem for Derivational Approaches to Binding

• Published in: Philosophies (Basel) Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 5
• Main Authors: Lee-Schoenfeld, Vera, Twiner, Nicholas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.02.2022
• Subjects: double-object construction; inherent dative case; inherent reflexivity; object coreference; Patients; reflexive binding; structural accusative case
• ISSN: 2409-9287; 2409-9287
• DOI: 10.3390/philosophies7010005

Despite Grewendorf’s well-known German binding data with the double-object verb zeigen ‘show’, where one object reflexively binds the other and which suggests that the direct object (DO) is generated higher than the indirect object (IO), this paper argues for the canonical surface order of IO > D...