This course concerns itself with the distribution and interpretation of dependent elements such as pronouns and reflexives. It starts with an introduction to a version of the `classic’ Lecture on Government and Binding binding theory. This will take us to the distinction between binding and coreference, attempts to regulate coreference such as Reinhart’s Rule I, and the structural conditions underlying variable binding. Going beyond the LGB binding theory, we will examine Reinhart & Reuland’s binding theory which centers the notion of reflexive marking. Our discussion will be driven by data that expands the domain of dependent nominals beyond the pronominal and the reflexives found in English as well as environments where pronouns and reflexives are not in complementary distribution. In this context, we will approach a range of attempts to derive the distribution of dependent elements as following from a competition between dependent forms or a preference for non-redundancy. Time permitting, we will also look at Weak and Strong Crossover and attempts to describe/derive them and the phenomenon of indirect binding, where the binder does not c-command the bindee on the surface.