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  <Title>tVIodeling syntactic constraints on anaphoric binding</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have sketched a way to use inside-out functional uncertMnty to constrain the relation between an anaphor and an antecedent. A formal theory of anaphoric binding will involve a specification of a universal inventory of anaphoric binding possibilities and possible dependencies between them.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> A general discussion of such a theory is beyond the scope of this paper, but we conclude by indicating how our approach captures a few of the cross-linguistic properties of anaphoric binding. null If the domMn and the antecedent binding requirements for an anaphor are both positive or both negative, the requirements must be satisfied by the same element. This is enforced by requiring that only one positive and one negative equation can be associated with each a naphor.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Additionally, only elements that are superior to the element should be considered in applying the constraints. GF1 is superior to GF2 if (1) GF1 asymmetrically f-commands GF2, or (2) GF1 and GF2 f-command each other, and GF1 is higher on the hierarchy of grammatical functions given in (18): (18) SUBJ &gt; OBJ &gt; OBJ2 &gt; OBL &gt; ADJ As noted above, the f-command requirement is enforced by the requirement that the Path Out be non-null and the PathIn be of length one.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> The modelling of the functional hierarchy given in (18) within onr framework is, however, a task that remains to be done.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> A finM observation is that inside-out fllnctional uncertainty can interact with outside-in functional uncertainty as used in the analysis of dependencies between 'fillers' and 'gaps', as in the following: (19) a.*Bill said that Sue likes himself.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> b. ttimself, Bill said that Sue likes.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="6"> Preliminary research indicates that no special machinery is needed to model the right interactions in these cases.</Paragraph>
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