noun
binding theory
A technical term in generative linguistics, specifically Government and Binding theory, dealing with the syntactic relationships between pronouns and their antecedents.
束縛理論は、代名詞とその先行詞の関係を説明する。
Binding theory explains the relationship between pronouns and their antecedents.
From 束縛 (そくばく, 'binding') + 理論 (りろん, 'theory'), a calque of the English linguistic term 'binding theory'.