binding theory
A technical term in generative linguistics, specifically Government and Binding theory, dealing with the syntactic relationships between pronouns and their antecedents.
Binding theory explains the relationship between pronouns and their antecedents.
government-binding theory
From 束縛 (そくばく, 'binding') + 理論 (りろん, 'theory'), a calque of the English linguistic term 'binding theory'.