Yoon, Seok Hwa(1993). The Distribution of English Non-reflexive. Linguistics, Vol 1. We have a well-known phenomenon in English where a reflexive pronoun is expected, but does not occur. In this type of sentence, a pp contains a reflexive pronoun whi...
Yoon, Seok Hwa(1993). The Distribution of English Non-reflexive. Linguistics, Vol 1. We have a well-known phenomenon in English where a reflexive pronoun is expected, but does not occur. In this type of sentence, a pp contains a reflexive pronoun which is coreferential with a preceding noun in the same clause, and also contains a non-reflexive pronoun which is coreferential with a preceding noun. If anaphors always exist in "bound position," it is impossible to substitute any non-anaphoric noun. This paper indicates that an anaphor must be reflexive if the pp which contains it is immediately dominated by V, but it is phonologically realized as a non-reflexive pronoun when dominated by V.