This article provides an overview of the various means that languages use to represent interpretive dependencies and reflexive predicates. These means are exemplified on the basis of a broad variety of languages. The patterns are prima facie complex, involving semireflexives, full reflexives, and affixal reflexives. Yet they can be accounted for on the basis of the morphosyntactic properties of the elements involved, together with the way these elements interact with a number of universal principles and the syntactic environment. The central principles involved are (a) a principle restricting chain formation by Agree and (b) a general principle applying to reflexive predicates that requires them to be licensed, either through the addition of structural complexity for protection or through a lexical bundling operation, governed by (c) an economy principle. Although I conclude that there is no unified notion of what a reflexive is, reflexives do have a shared core, namely their role in the licensing of refl...

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自反和自反

本文概述了语言用来表示解释性依存关系和反身谓词的各种方式。这些手段以各种各样的语言为例。模式是表面相复杂的，包括半反射性，全反射性和词缀反射性。然而，可以根据所涉及元素的形态句法特性以及这些元素与许多通用原理和句法环境进行交互的方式来解释它们。所涉及的中心原则是：（a）同意通过协议限制链形成的原则；（b）适用于反身谓词的一般原则，要求通过增加保护性结构复杂性或通过词法捆绑操作对它们进行许可，受（c）经济原则约束。尽管我得出结论说，关于反身指代并没有统一的概念，但反身称谓确实有一个共同的核心，即它们在反身许可中的作用。