Long Distance Reflexives

这笔赠款支持继续开展关于长距离反射的跨语言合作研究。长距离反身代词是一种反身形式，可以把先行成分带到本域(支配范畴)之外。例如，在下面的普通话例子中，反身既可以指补语从句的主语，也可以指矩阵从句的主语：张三人为马里管子集张三认为玛丽批评自己张三认为玛丽批评了他/她自己。这个项目的重点是经验性地确定反身代词可以是长距离反射的条件，以及与长距离反身代词的出现相关的性质。第二个目标是开发一种理论，该理论将预测反身反应何时会是长距离的，并将具有这些特性。该项目涉及新加坡和马来西亚大学的三名私人助理和三名合作同事之间的合作。一个主要的、新的研究重点将是确定长距离反身代词的哪些条件在本质上是语法的，哪些来自语篇原则，如对象性。PIS还将检查语法和语篇之间的互动是否在所有语言中都是相同的，或者语言是否表现出不同的语法和语篇条件的混合。

This grant supports the continuation of collaborative, cross linguistic research on long distance reflexives. Long distance reflexives are reflexive forms which can take antecedents outside of their local domain (governing category). For instance, in the example below from Mandarin the reflexive can refer to either the subject of the complement clause or of the matrix clause: Zhangsan renwei Mali piping ziji Zhangsan thinks Mary criticized self 'Zhangsan thinks that Mary criticized him/herself.' The focus of this project is on determining empirically the conditions under which a reflexive can be long distance and the properties that correlate with the occurrence of long distance reflexives. A second goal is to develop a theory that will predict when a reflexive will be long distance and will have these properties. The project involves collaboration among three PIs and three cooperating colleagues at universities in Singapore and Malaysia. A major, new focus of research will be on determining which of the conditions on long distance reflexives are grammatical in nature and which derive from principles of discourse such as logophoricity. The PIs will also examine whether the interaction between grammar and discourse is the same in all languages or whether languages exhibit different mixtures of grammatical and discourse conditions.