The Doubly Marked Reflexive in Chinese
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We discuss an unusual reflexive construction in which the Chinese reflexive ziji appears twice, once before the verb and once after. We demonstrate that this is a distinct construct with its own rules of construal and interpretation; it is not, for example, a combination of a simple ziji reflexive and an adverbial intensifier. Notably, their locality properties are also different: Double ziji does not tolerate non-local readings. We argue that while ziji is (or can be) a logophor [1], double ziji is an ordinary Principle A anaphor with all the properties and restrictions
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