Abstract
dc:descriptionThe locality conditions on reflexives vary widely from language to language. In English, a reflexive (e.g. himself) must take a local antecedent. In contrast, in Asian languages like Chinese, a reflexive (e.g. ziji) can take an antecedent indefinitely far from its antecedent. Furthermore, in European languages, a reflexive is bound in a less restricted domain than in English, but not in an indefinite domain as in Chinese. The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a unitary analysis of locality conditions on the binding of reflexives among languages within the general framework of Government and Binding theory. The core idea explored here is that reflexives in all languages obey the same locality conditions and that apparent long distance reflexives involve local successive cyclic head movement.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Language, Linguistics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Sung, Li-May
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Cole, Peter
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1990 Sung, Li-May
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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AAI9114431
(UMI)AAI9114431 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23453