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Reflexivization across clause boundaries in Italian1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Donna Jo Napoli
Donna Jo Napoli
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Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University
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At first glance Reflexivization in Italian seems to obey the same restrictions we find in English. Thus, if we consider the proposal that reflexive pronouns and their antecedents must be clausemates in English, we find in Italian that the same clausemate condition holds and that for any two coreferential pronouns within the same clause, the second of them is a reflexive pronoun. If, on the other hand, we consider the proposal that a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent may be indefinitely far apart provided that certain circumstances are not present, such as an intervening specified subject or the reflexive's being in a tensed S to which the antecedent does not belong (as in Chomsky (1973)), again the same conditions hold for Italian Reflexivization; as illustrated in (I)–(3).

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 1979 , pp. 1 - 28
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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