A study of Chinese reflexives
This thesis investigates the different types of Chinese reflexive constructions and presents an analysis of these, attempting to integrate syntactic, morphological and discourse-related aspects of the phenomena. In Chinese, two distinct types of reflexive have been widely discussed in the literature: simplex reflexive ziji 'self', which is a long-distance reflexive, and complex reflexives pronoun + ziji, such as taziji 'himself', which must be locally bound (see Huang and Tang (1991) among others). In addition, Chinese has a kind of double reflexive construction, such as ziji-benshen, and reflexive clitics zi and ziwo. This thesis argues that reflexive clitics must be locally bound; and that under certain conditions, both simplex reflexive ziji and complex reflexives such as taziji and ziji- benshen can be locally bound, long-distance bound, or even free in an entire sentence. When the reflexive is locally bound, it must fall under the principles of the Binding Theory; when it is long-distance bound or free in an entire sentence, it is subject to logophoric interpretation. Whether a reflexive is subject to the Binding Theory or logophoric interpretation is determined by the interaction between the reflexive
Yu, Xian Fu
Linguistics
A study of Chinese reflexives. This thesis investigates the different types of Chinese reflexive constructions and presents an analysis of these, attempting to integrate syntactic, morphological and discourse-related aspects of the phenomena. In Chinese, two distinct types of reflexive have been widely discussed in the literature: simplex reflexive ziji 'self', which is a long-distance reflexive, and complex reflexives pronoun + ziji, such as taziji 'himself', which must be locally bound (see Huang and Tang (1991) among others). In addition, Chinese has a kind of double reflexive construction, such as ziji-benshen, and reflexive clitics zi and ziwo. This thesis argues that reflexive clitics must be locally bound; and that under certain conditions, both simplex reflexive ziji and complex reflexives such as taziji and ziji- benshen can be locally bound, long-distance bound, or even free in an entire sentence. When the reflexive is locally bound, it must fall under the principles of the Binding Theory; when it is long-distance bound or free in an entire sentence, it is subject to logophoric interpretation. Whether a reflexive is subject to the Binding Theory or logophoric interpretation is determined by the interaction between the reflexive
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