Volume 20, Winter 1998

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Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 20, Winter 1998
(University of Calgary, 1998-01) Blair, Leslie; Burns, Christine; Rowsell, Lorna V
The editors of this volume, Leslie Blair, Christine Bums and Lorna Rowsell are pleased to present the twentieth issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics published by the department of Linguistics at the University of Calgary. The papers contained in this volume represent works in progress and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive.
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Reflexivity and Chinese anaphors: a review of Reinhart and Reuland's Reflexivity
(University of Calgary, 1998-01) Baggaley, Valerie
As a departure from Standard Binding Theory, Reinhart and Reuland (1993) argue that binding is about the reflexive properties and interpretation of predicates. This paper provides a summary of this theory of reflexivity and then applies it to Chinese data. Reinhart and Reuland's Condition A and Bare applied to Chinese anaphors and, in several instances, fail to predict the correct results. The binding conditions are found to be too restrictive for they predict ungrammatical sentences, when in fact, the sentences are grammatical; hence reflexivity fails to capture the full range of reflexivity in Chinese.