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현대중국어 후행결속 현상 분석

Research on Backward Binding in Mandarin Chinese

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Backward binding is a unique phenomenon in that reflexives, which mainly function as substitutes, precede their referents and can be bound by the referents without being c-commanded. This paper aimed to determine the nature of such phenomenon and explain the cognitive and syntactic mechanism which enables it. Language data shows us that backward binding is certainly induced by speaker’s pragmatic purpose and thus is non-syntactic by its nature. However, considering that c-command cannot be abolished in the binding theory, we must assume that non-syntactic factors can help establishing internalized c-command relation, which enables such exceptional binding relationship. Since backward binding occurs in order to emphasize the affectedness upon the referent, the referent in the sentence must recognize and perceive the thing caused the influence, which is the subject of the sentence. This helps establishing an internalized empty pronoun. The empty pronoun can easily be interpreted to be co-indexed with the following referent, and it also binds the preceding reflexive by c-commanding it. Therefore, the reflexive can be bound by the referent through the assumed empty pronoun. Assuming such backward binding process makes the phenomenon not contradictory to syntactical principles and makes it possible to be explained in the same way as many other cataphora. Through backward binding, the speaker empathizes with the referent and describes the event from the referent’s perspective. This helps depicting a recursive and unintentional effect upon the referent.

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Backward binding is a unique phenomenon in that reflexives, which mainly function as substitutes, precede their referents and can be bound by the referents without being c-commanded. This paper aimed to determine the nature of such phenomenon and explain the cognitive and syntactic mechanism which enables it. Language data shows us that backward binding is certainly induced by speaker’s pragmatic purpose and thus is non-syntactic by its nature. However, considering that c-command cannot be abolished in the binding theory, we must assume that non-syntactic factors can help establishing internalized c-command relation, which enables such exceptional binding relationship. Since backward binding occurs in order to emphasize the affectedness upon the referent, the referent in the sentence must recognize and perceive the thing caused the influence, which is the subject of the sentence. This helps establishing an internalized empty pronoun. The empty pronoun can easily be interpreted to be co-indexed with the following referent, and it also binds the preceding reflexive by c-commanding it. Therefore, the reflexive can be bound by the referent through the assumed empty pronoun. Assuming such backward binding process makes the phenomenon not contradictory to syntactical principles and makes it possible to be explained in the same way as many other cataphora. Through backward binding, the speaker empathizes with the referent and describes the event from the referent’s perspective. This helps depicting a recursive and unintentional effect upon the referent.

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