Chinese reflexivization: a movement to INFL approach

This paper analyzes the binding of the Chinese reflexive pronoun ziji in the 'movement-to-INFL' framework developed in Chomsky (1986a) and Lebeaux (1983). I claim that this approach allows a particularly elegant account of subject orientation in which the reflexive anaphor is moved to INFL position at logical form (LF). Long-distance binding is, in turn, analyzed as INFL-to-INFL movement at LF. In addition, I argue that the blocking effect on Chinese reflexivization and certain relaxations of ccommand noted by Tang (1989) can be accommodated very naturally in this approach, thereby providing further support for it.