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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Bijection Principle''' is a principle stating that an [[operator]] must bind one and only one [[variable]], where 'variable' is defined as any locally A-bar bound [[NP]]. <br />
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===Examples===<br />
This principle (BP for short) accounts for [[weak crossover]] violations, as in (i):<br />
''(i) *Who<sub>i</sub> does his<sub>i</sub> mother admire t<sub>i</sub>'' <br />
''(ii) Who<sub>i</sub> t<sub>i</sub> likes his<sub>i</sub> mother''<br />
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===Comments===<br />
The BP excludes the interpretation for (i) where both ''his'' and ''t<sub>i</sub>'' are bound [[variable]]s bound by the [[operator]] ''who''. The bound variable reading for the [[pronoun]] is allowed in (ii), since the pronoun, being locally A-bound by the trace of ''who'', does not syntactically count as a [[variable]].<br />
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===Link===<br />
[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Bijection+Principle&lemmacode=824 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] <br />
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===References===<br />
*{{: Chomsky 1982}}<br />
*Koopman, H. & Sportiche, D. 1982. Variables and the Bijection Principle. In ''Projet sur les langues kru: Premier rapport.'' Kaye, J. & Koopman, H. & Sportiche, D. (eds.), 176-202. Univ. du Quebec a Montreal.<br />
*Riemsdijk, H. van & Williams, E. 1986. ''Introduction to the theory of grammar.'' Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.<br />
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