The Role of the Antecedent in Anaphoric Relations

In this article, I attempt to provide an account of the fact that the binding properties of subjects of NPs systematically distinguish two groups of languages. In languages like Chinese, Japanese, Malayalam, subjects of NPs seem to have a sufficient “proximity” to an NP external antecedent to allow a reflexive, and yet a sufficient “distance” from it to also allow a pronoun, as in (1).

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