Constraints on Reflexivization in Mandarin Chinese by Pan Haihua

Author:Pan, Haihua [Haihua Pan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781135655419
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

However, the perspectivity account is too restrictive, as it only allows the deictic center to be the antecedent of ziji. So it has problems in explaining all the cases of the blocking effect. For example, it wrongly predicts that long-distance binding is not possible in sentences like (16).

Since ziji is constrained by perspectivity, and thus must be bound to the deictic center — the speaker, ziji cannot be bound by other NPs in the sentence. However, this prediction is not consistent with the binding pattern observed in the sentence. Furthermore, the perspectivity account would wrongly predict that the speaker in (15) could be the antecedent of ziji. Furthermore, subject orientation is unexpected under the perspectivity account, as the deictic center needs not to be the subject, and it can be any grammatical functions that the speaker encodes the first person or second person pronouns.

To summarize the discussion in this section, we can conclude that an account employing concepts such as logophoriciiy, emphasis, and perspectivity is inadequate to account for the properties of ziji.

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