Chinese long distance binding is explored in terms of a feature orientated approach: a long distance anaphor with barren or impoverished φ features is obliged to acquires φ features (or phi features) from its adjace...Chinese long distance binding is explored in terms of a feature orientated approach: a long distance anaphor with barren or impoverished φ features is obliged to acquires φ features (or phi features) from its adjacent NPs in its upward movement at LF, and that this feature obtaining process, governed by rules that are summarized in terms of Feature Saturation Process (FSP), provides answers to long distance binding. Accordingly, binding is seen as an instance of a perfect match of features possessed by a saturated anaphor and an NP at LF. An anaphor is bound when it moves to INFL with its φ features matched with a feature functioning NP, whereas a middle way anaphor with unsaturated φ features is not bound. This approach satisfactorily explains the binding relations in sentences of long distance coreference and providing alternative answers to other issues of binding. It is further shown that the binding of Chinese reflexive ziji (自己)to its antecedent(s) results from a sequence of local dependency through movement.展开更多
文摘Chinese long distance binding is explored in terms of a feature orientated approach: a long distance anaphor with barren or impoverished φ features is obliged to acquires φ features (or phi features) from its adjacent NPs in its upward movement at LF, and that this feature obtaining process, governed by rules that are summarized in terms of Feature Saturation Process (FSP), provides answers to long distance binding. Accordingly, binding is seen as an instance of a perfect match of features possessed by a saturated anaphor and an NP at LF. An anaphor is bound when it moves to INFL with its φ features matched with a feature functioning NP, whereas a middle way anaphor with unsaturated φ features is not bound. This approach satisfactorily explains the binding relations in sentences of long distance coreference and providing alternative answers to other issues of binding. It is further shown that the binding of Chinese reflexive ziji (自己)to its antecedent(s) results from a sequence of local dependency through movement.
