Prominence and Locality in the Binding of Mandarin Complex Reflexive ‘ta-ziji’ (S/HE-SELF)
汉语复合反身代词约束中的显著性与局部性
Haihua Pan 潘海华; Jianhua Hu 胡建华

Abstract 摘要
This paper shows that the binding properties exhibited by Chinese compound reflexives like ‘ta-ziji’ (s/he-self) can be best explained if an Optimality-Theoretic (OT, Prince & Smolensky 1993) account of reflexivization is adopted. It claims that Prominence and Locality are the two important factors that regulate the interpretation of reflexives in different languages and their different rankings can account for the difference between English and Chinese (PC) in reflexive binding. This paper argues that in Chinese, Prominence Constraint (PC) is ranked higher than Locality Constraint (LC), whereas in English, LC is ranked higher than PC.

本文用优选论（Optimality Theory）的思路来解释汉语复合反身代词的约束特性。本文认为制约反身代词约束的因素主要有两个，一个显著性 (prominence), 另一个是局部性 (locality)。显著性与局部性在不同语言中地位的不同可以解释不同语言中反身代词约束性的不同，汉语复合反身代词与英语反身代词的区别正因为这两个因素在汉，英两种语言中的语法地位不同。本文认为在汉语复合反身代词约束中，显著性限制的地位高于局部性限制，而在英语中，局部性限制的地位则高于显著性限制。

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