Logophoricity, Attitudes and Ziji at the Interface
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چکیده
Long distance reflexives (LDRs) constitute an interesting phenomenon for theoretical linguistics because they pose a challenge to the standard theory of anaphor binding as put forth in Chomsky (1981) and subsequent revisions of it within the Principles-and-Parameters framework. The standard theory takes a reflexive pronoun to be an anaphor subject to the condition in (1) (henceforth, BCA), with the notion of a governing category as defined in (2):
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