title: Grammar of binding in the languages of the world: Unity versus diversity.
abstract: Cole, Hermon, and Yanti (2015) present a number of far-reaching conclusions about language universals on the basis of their study of the anaphoric systems of the Austronesian languages of Indonesia. The present contribution critically assesses these conclusions. It reports a further set of data, and shows that contra to what these authors argue, the systems they discuss can be straightforwardly accounted for by a simple set of universal principles plus properties of the vocabulary of the languages involved. I conclude this article with some remarks on acquisition.
authors.affiliation: Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS, The Netherlands. Electronic address: e.reuland@uu.nl.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Reuland
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008960:Models, Psychological; D014825:Vocabulary
keywords: Austronesian languages; Binding theory; Language universals; Linguistic theory; Methods