Binding theory—Structure sensitivity of referential dependencies

Such expressions as simple pronouns (her) or reflexive pronouns (himself) are “referentially incomplete”, in that their intrinsic content does not suffice to determine their referential import under normal discourse conditions. Such expressions enter into referential dependency relations with antecedents. This article presents and discusses aspects of the binding theory, that is some aspects of what is known about such referential dependency that crucially depend on syntactic constituent structures as well as other syntactic properties such as movement dependencies.