A Lexico-Syntactic Approach to Binding Conditions A and B

Binding Conditions A and B are quite useful generalizations, but they raise many fundamental questions such as why must an anaphor be bound within a local domain, but not outside of it? , and why does a pronominal obey an almost opposite constraint? and how is the local domain defined? . This article explores the possibility of providing answers to those fundamental questions by assuming that binding conditions have both lexical and syntactic aspects. I claim that self is a reflexive predicate that requires its two arguments to be co-indexed, whereas a non-reflexive predicate like like requires its two arguments not to be co-indexed.