Stephen C. Levinson on Binding Conditions

HI,

Has anyone read his 1991 work entitled "Pragmatic reduction of the
Binding Conditions revisited"?
I'm reading it, and find it rather heavy going. One thing I still
cannot understand about the article, which I'm wading through for about
one week, is his association of the I-Principle and the presumption of
"clausemate core-argument disjointness". (e.g, in 'he hit him', 'he'
and 'him' are usually disjoint in reference, i.e. non-coreferential.)
He claims that the latter follows from the former, but I don't see the
connection.

Could anyone enlighten me?

Ray

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