境きょう界かい理り論ろん

noun

bounding theory

Technical term in generative linguistics, specifically Government and Binding theory, concerning constraints on syntactic movement.

• 境きょう界かい理り論ろんは、WH移い動どうに制せい限げんを課かす原げん理りの一ひとつである。

  Bounding theory is one of the principles that impose restrictions on WH-movement.