In linguistics, binding is the phenomenon in which anaphoric elements such as pronouns are grammatically associated with their antecedents. For instance, in the English sentence "Mary saw herself", the anaphor "herself" is bound by its antecedent "Mary".
In linguistics, binding is the phenomenon in which anaphoric elements such as pronouns are grammatically associated with their antecedents. For instance, in the English sentence "Mary saw herself", the anaphor "herself" is bound by its antecedent "Mary".
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