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Pollard, Carl; Xue, Ping – Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 1998
Proposes that the distinction between syntactic and nonsyntactic use of reflexives is not necessarily one of lexical ambiguity, positing one type of referentially dependent element (reflexives) which have two options for being related to their antecedents (syntactic binding and discourse conference). The paper focuses on Chinese reflexive ziji and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Linguistic Theory, North American English, Pronouns