Long Distance Anaphors and the Syntactic Representation of the Speaker

In this paper I’ll mostly consider the distribution of the Italian third person singular/plural possessive proprio and of the Chinese reflexive ziji. The main idea I’ll develop in this work is that the morphosyntactic characteristics determining at the interface level the temporal location of events also allow the identification of the antecedent of long distance anaphors. That is, temporal anchoring, or sequence of tense – henceforth, SOT – and the binding of long distance anaphors – henceforth, LDAs –are two facets of the same grammatical properties of the clause.

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