32.3171, Books: Reflexivization in Mandarin: the role of zi-ji and its components: Wong

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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 20:29:41
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Reflexivization in Mandarin: the role of zi-ji and its components: Wong

 


Title: Reflexivization in Mandarin: the role of zi-ji and its components 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/reflexivization-in-mandarin-the-role-of-zi-ji-and-its-components 


Author: Sally Chi Ho Wong

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933721 Pages: 417 Price: Europe EURO 40


Abstract:

This dissertation analyzes reflexivization in Mandarin Chinese. It focuses on
the anaphor zi-ji and the reflexivizing verbal prefix zi-. It shows that in
contrast to the widely adopted position that ziji is a simplex anaphor, it is
in fact complex, consisting of the prefix zi- and a pronominal stem -ji. This
entails that zi-ji can license reflexivity by protection (Reuland 2011a).

Zi- is an operator on argument structure, identifying two argument positions.
Its effect is similar to the bundling operation of Reinhart and Siloni (2005).
Zi- also operates on verbs taking clausal complements; if so, it identifies
the external argument of the verb with a free variable in its complement. This
explains a hitherto mysterious binding pattern: the pronominal ta in the
complement of a zi-verb must be bound by the subject of that verb; the same
applies to zi-ji, unless the ‘blocking effect’ enforces an even lower subject.

None of the current approaches provide an account for the binding pattern in
the complements of zi-verbs. I show that Giblin’s (2016) Agree-based approach,
which provides a principled account of both nonlocal binding of ziji and the
blocking effect, can be straightforwardly integrated with my account of that
peculiar binding pattern.

I also show that a puzzling contrast between local and nonlocal binding of
zi-ji reduces to a timing difference involving the interaction of zi-ji’s
constituents with the syntactic environment. Overall, then, the system of
Mandarin fits in with a crosslinguistically well-established pattern of
anaphoric systems.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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