A Study Of Chinese Reflexive "Zi Ji"

This thesis focuses on the study of Chinese reflexive"Ziji". It consists of four parts: the introduction, the main part and the conclusion. The introduction tells the background knowledge of the study of reflexive. The main part includes four chapters.Chapter two studies the situation in which"ziji"can be used with a pronoun or a noun together. This chapter gives a detailed description of this kind"ziji"according to our real corpus, this description centers on what part in a sentence"ziji"can be. Based on all of those, we discuss and recheck the real situation of"ta ziji".Chapter three studies the situation that"ziji"and its anaphor are used in a complete sentence. This chapter describes what part the antecedent of"ziji"can be in the real corpus and with each one, what part can"ziji"be in the sentence. Meanwhile, we recheck if this kind"ziji"has long-disdance binding, subject orientation, sub-command, AGR or blocking.Chapter 4 studies the situation in which"ziji"and its antecedent aren't used in a complete sentence, giving a detailed description of the sentence with"ziji"and the one with its anaphor. This chapter rechecks the five questions mentioned in last chapter.Chapter five mainly studies the distance between"ziji"and its antecedent. Chinese reflexive"ziji"often does not comply with Binding A. This chapter lays emphasis on the introduction of long-distance binding and the elements contributing to this phenomenon.