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Constraints on Reflexivization in Mandarin Chinese

Constraints on Reflexivization in Mandarin Chinese

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Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1138971596
ISBN13: 9781138971592
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 13 2016
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
First Published in 1997. Mandarin ziji has challenged many syntacticians to probe for its properties and specifically its relationship to Binding Condition A (BCA), which dictates that an anaphor must be bound by a syntactically prominent (or c-commanding) noun phrase in a very local domain (Governing Category or GC). This book argues for the separation of contrastive and non-contrastive reflexives. This book will also show that ben-ren/shen and their compound forms, being inherently contrastive, differ from ziji and its compound forms in the contexts accessible to them; the latter can access linguistic contexts only, but the former can also access utterance situations and world knowledge.

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