ABSTRACT
Long-distance refl exives (LDRs) constitute an interesting phenomenon for theoretical linguistics because they pose a challenge to the standard theory of anaphor binding as put forth in Chomsky (1981) and subsequent revisions of it within the Principles-and-Parameters framework. The standard theory takes a refl exive pronoun to be an anaphor subject to the condition in (1) (henceforth, BCA), with the notion of a governing category (GC) as defi ned in (2):
(1) Binding Condition A (Chomsky 1981) An anaphor is bound in its governing category.
