Constraints on Reflexivization in Mandarin Chinese (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815328513)

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.

Author: Haihua Pan
ISBN-10: 0815328516
ISBN-13: 9780815328513
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 02/01/1997
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.72h x 5.70w x 0.85d