Multiple Occurrences of the Chinese Reflexive in a Clause: At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface

Multiple occurrences of ziji in Mandarin Chinese pose a theoretical challenge which has not been met satisfactorily by previous analyses (see Huang & Liu, 2001; et al., 2009). In this paper, we employ parsing analysis the co-reference relationship between zijis and their potential antecedents within framework Dynamic Syntax (Kempson Cann 2005). Since perspective center for multiple is determined only looking at context line with principle relevance, can be treated as place-holder violate locality condition. That to say, metavariable projected provided via pragmatic enrichment process: substitution. The shifting will cause semantic confusion communication. We then conclude that take one same antecedent communication also Yang Wu, 2015).