ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |8 pages
Introduction
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
part |104 pages
Basic Data and Previous Analyses
chapter |39 pages
New Distributional Facts
chapter |41 pages
Prominent GB Analyses
chapter |20 pages
Other Approaches
part |103 pages
The Proposal
chapter |27 pages
Locality and Compatibility
chapter |40 pages
Ziji and Self-Ascription
chapter |31 pages
Contrastive Reflexives
part |8 pages
Conclusions and Implications