Long Distance Reflexives

该基金支持继续进行关于长距离反身代词的跨语言合作研究。长距离自反是可以在其局部域（支配范畴）之外取先行词的自反形式。例如，在下面来自普通话的例子中，反身代词可以指补语从句的主语或矩阵从句的主语： 张三任伟马利配管机 张三认为玛丽批评了自己 “张三认为玛丽批评了他/她自己。' 这个项目的重点是确定经验的条件下，反射可以是长距离和性质，与长距离反射的发生。第二个目标是发展一个理论，预测什么时候反身代词会是长距离的，并具有这些性质。 该项目涉及新加坡和马来西亚大学的三名PI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条件是语法的性质，从话语的原则，如logophoricity。PI还将检查语法和话语之间的相互作用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话语条件的混合。

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.