Comparing reflexive and personal pronouns in Chinese locative prepositional phrases

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ID22159127
AuthorsJiaxing Yu (0000-0002-7762-6082, Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights), Shannon Bryant (0000-0002-4790-1653, Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights)
Year2024
Volume9
Issue1
Pages5716
Publication date2024-05-15
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2473-8689 • E-ISSN: 2473-8689
PublisherLinguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5716
OpenAlexW4396916418
LanguageEN
References cited11

In many languages, both reflexive and personal pronouns within locative prepositional phrases (LPPs) can be co-construed with a local subject, making LPPs an ideal testing ground for non-syntactic factors influencing pronoun use. Focusing on Chinese, we experimentally tested the extent to which acceptability of reflexives ziji and ta-ziji and personal pronoun ta depends on event type (motion/perception) and relation type (contact/non-contact). We find that effects follow the trend previously reported for English but affect different forms to different degrees. Along with advancing understanding of binding in LPPs, this work contributes to comparisons between ziji and ta-ziji and the typology of pronouns more broadly

Linguistics · Locative case · Object pronoun · Personal pronoun · Reflexive pronoun · Reflexivity · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning

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