ABSTRACT
This chapter explains long-distance binding of Chinese bare reflexives. Long-distance binding with ziji however, is restricted by a condition that requires the remote antecedent to agree in person and number features with all closer potential antecedents. Within the Principles and Parameters approach, various kinds of theories have been posited to account for the contrast in long-distance binding between bare reflexives and compound reflexives in Chinese. Various kinds of analyses have been proposed in terms of government-binding theory to account for the relevant Chinese binding facts. In general, potential local binders of bare and compound reflexives in Chinese are subject to the subject-orientation condition, the animacy condition, and the c-command condition, except in cases where the antecedent represents an experiencer and where the noun phrase or the sentential subject containing the antecedent represents an inanimate entity.
