reflexives in subject position

[John Moore]

>To David's posting, I would add a reference to work by Eric Reuland and
>Tanya Reinhart, who edited a very interesting book titled Long-Distance
>Reflexives about 8 years ago. That's probably enough information to find
>the book on Amazon.com or some such.
>
>Dan Everett
>
>

Reinhart and Reuland have a paper in that volume, but it was edited by
Reuland and Koster.  Here is the reference:

Long-distance anaphora /, edited by Jan Koster and Eric Reuland. Cambridge
[England] ; New York : Cambridge
                       University Press, 1991.

The introduction is an excellent overview of long-distance anaphora.  The
Reinhart and Reuland paper in this volume, as well as their LI paper
"Reflexivity" should be of interest.  I think this is work that really
transcends the formalist/functionalist divide (as does Pollard and Sag's
HPSG paper on binding).  It is true that many formal devices are used, but
also many functional insights are there.  These are works that make me
optimistic about the field.

John Moore

http://ling.ucsd.edu/~moore/