Abstract
This chapter explores a version of the head-movement account of long-distance anaphor binding for Chinese ziji . The central idea is that lexical long-distance reflexives like Chinese ziji have the same properties as the Romance se reflexives, cliticized in overt syntax to the TENSE-V complex. The chapter focuses on three issues: (1) the conditions on LF movement of a reflexive clitic to a functional head, yielding both local and long-distance binding, (2) the definitions of domains and their inflectional heads which allow head-adjunction, and (3) the semantic or morphological factors which motivate this movement. It concludes by noting some problems for the head adjunction analysis as well as data which appears to rule out for this language the alternative idea of a relativized SUBJECT proposed by Progovac. Keywords: Chinese ziji ; long-distance anaphor; Progovac; semantics; syntax
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