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[A] game-and paradigm-changer in the field of anaphoric relations...Highly recommended to all interested scholars working in the field of anaphora, regardless of their theoretical background. -- Darcy Sperlich, The Linguist List

[A] game-and paradigm-changer in the field of anaphoric relations...Highly recommended to all interested scholars working in the field of anaphora, regardless of their theoretical background. The Linguist List

This masterful study provides a comprehensive and penetrating analysis of some of the most curious phenomena of language, referential dependencies, exploring the range of their permissible variation, the reasons for puzzling surface complexities, and the far-reaching implications for design of language and cognitive architecture more generally. A major contribution to linguistics and related disciplines. --Noam Chomsky Eric Reuland's book is a daring attempt to rethink the theoretical status of anaphora. Reuland's objective could not be more bold. It is to derive the variation in anaphora seen across languages from structural differences among languages rather than from a system specific to anaphora. --Peter Cole, Professor of Linguistics, University of Delaware and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Anaphora and Language Design is a major theoretical achievement within the domain of research of minimalist syntax. It offers a number of fascinating insights into the ways in which what might appear as random crosslinguistic variation in the domain of anaphora can be successfully understood in terms of the interaction among the syntactic computation, the language interfaces, and the feature endowment of individual lexical items. --Denis Delfitto, Linguistics Department, University of Verona

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Eric Reuland is Faculty Professor of Language and Cognition at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (OTS).

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