1st Edition

Constraints on Reflexivization in Mandarin Chinese

By Haihua Pan Copyright 1997
    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part II Basic Data and Previous Analyses; Chapter 2 New Distributional Facts; Chapter 3 Prominent GB Analyses; Chapter 4 Other Approaches; Part III The Proposal; Chapter 5 Locality and Compatibility; Chapter 6 Ziji and Self-Ascription; Chapter 7 Contrastive Reflexives; Part IV Conclusions and Implications; Chapter 8 Conclusions and Implications;

    Biography

    Pan, Haihua