Anaphora

The LFG approach to anaphora explicitly recognizes the substantial amount of variation that we see attested in the grammar of anaphoric elements, and it offers a lexicalist account that captures this diversity. This chapter provides an overview of the major tenets of this approach. We discuss how LFG captures prominence relations between anaphors and antecedents, as well as the inventory of further constraints that determine the size of the binding domain and the search for an antecedent. The chapter includes a brief commentary on logophoric elements and on how the anaphoric dependency itself is represented in LFG accounts, and it concludes with an outlook on other pertinent issues addressed in the LFG literature.