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We discuss an unusual reflexive construction in which the Chinese reflexive ziji appears twice, once before the verb and once after. We demonstrate that this is a distinct construct with its own rules of construal and interpretation; it is not, for example, a combination of a simple ziji reflexive and an adverbial intensifier. Notably, their locality properties are also different: Double ziji does not tolerate non-local readings. We argue that while ziji is (or can be) a logophor [1], double ziji is an ordinary Principle A anaphor with all the properties and restrictions that this implies.
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Dimitriadis, A., Que, M. (2009). The Doubly Marked Reflexive in Chinese. In: Lalitha Devi, S., Branco, A., Mitkov, R. (eds) Anaphora Processing and Applications. DAARC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5847. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04975-0_7
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