Constraints on Reflexivization in Mandarin Chinese

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Constraints on Reflexivization in Mandarin Chinese is written by Haihua Pan and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1135655340 (ISBN 10) and 9781135655341 (ISBN 13).

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.