new book atomism binding atomism binding edited hans bennis pierre pica johan rooryck state art binding everything reference coreference nonreference disjoint reference boundedness freedom sixteen papers new volume provide representative overview broad range issues relevant study binding phenomena generative framework since inception theoretical interest coreferential relations generative grammar debate respect question whether co reference represented grammar notions co indexation disjoint reference free bound play important role discussion relevance explicitly analyzed many articles volume role thematic information binding theory constitutes another important line inquiry elaborated book various contributors volume argue thematic information largely influences binding phenomena although specific proposals expressing relation differ quite substantially another issue pursued related discussion whether binding theory component sentence grammar many papers address issue quite explicitly delineate respective roles sentence discourse grammar novel intriguing ways volume contains following contributions stephen berman arild hestvik split antecedents noncoreference drt george aaron broadwell binding theory switchreference hamida demirdache condition c robert fiengo robert may semantic significance syntactic identity zygmunt frajzyngier pronouns agreement systems interaction coding reference robert freidin binding theory minimalist assumptions jeff gruber configurational approach thematic binding james higginbotham plea implicit anaphors hajime hoji sloppy identity principle b jan koster anaphora uniformity grammar howard lasnik levels representation elements anaphora seth minkoff syntax local logophoric control gertjan postma logical entailment possessive nature reflexive pronouns eric reuland sigridur sigurjonsdottir long distance binding icelandic syntax discourse ken safir symmetry unity theory anaphora christopher tancredi pronouns perspectives informative introduction editors xx 412 pp isbn 90 6765 535 x paperback price nlg 61 32 excl vat pp holland academic graphics hague http www hag nl rint sybesma holland academic graphics po box 53292 2505 ag hague netherlands fax 31 70 448 0177