Present study investigates whether the syntactic constraints of English reflexives and pronouns originally proposed in Standard Binding Theory (SBT; Chomsky 1980, 1981, 1986) are well-reflected in written corpus data in British English by using the ICE-GB corpus. Four linguistic factors including structural relations between the reflexives/pronouns and their antecedents were used to analyze 1,000 sentences (400 reflexives and 600 pronouns) extracted from the ICE-GB corpus. The results demonstrated the following: i) The linguistic factors related to binding conditions showed structural differences between reflexives and pronouns in English; ii) English reflexives showed more cases of discourse binding (i.e., binding outside the sentential boundary) than the original expectation of SBT; iii) With the domain of sentential binding, structural constraints such as c-commanding and binding domain (Governing Category: SSC and TSC) were nearly violated with reflexives.

1. 서론: 영어의 결속현상과 결속조건
 2. ICE-GB 코퍼스와 연구방법
  2.1. ICE-GB 포커스
  2.2. 연구방법 및 절차
 3. 분석 결과
  3.1. 재귀사와 대명사의 문장결속과 담화결속 비율
  3.2. 선행사의 성분통어(Command) 여부
  3.3. 결속영역(Binding Domain): 시제문 조건 위반(TSC-violation)과 명시주어조건 위반(SSC-violation)
  3.4. 대명사/재귀사가 위치한 절과 주절의 거리(Embedding)
 4. 논의 및 결론
 참고문헌

• 김지혜(한국교원대학교) | Ji-Hye Kim Corresponding author
• 이용훈(충남대학교) | Yong-hun Lee
• 김달은(한국교원대학교) | Dal Eun Kim