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Pronouns, Reflexives and Binding in Ao

Pangersenla Walling, Ph.D.

Abstract

This paper begins by a detailed description of the nature pronouns and reflexives in Ao, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Nagaland. Besides reflexives and pronouns, we will discuss elements such as verbal reciprocal and emphatic reflexives which has no independent reference of its own but rather dependent on an entity within (antecedent) or outside the sentence. It will also examine in brief the binding possibilities following the binding theory (Chomsky 1981).

Keywords: reflexive, anaphor, reciprocal, co-indexed, binding

1. Introduction

Reflexives are used to describe a verb or a construction where the subject and the object refer to the same entity. In government and binding theory, reflexives, together with NP-traces and PRO are classified as a class of NPs (Noun Phrase) known as Anaphors. Languages like English uses a set of reflexive pronouns to express the relationship where subject and object refers to the same person. There are also languages using case, affixes and word order to elaborate such relation between the subject and the object.

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Pangersenla Walling, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
Nagaland University, Kohima Campus
Merima
Kohima 797001
Nagaland
India
wallingasen@gmail.com
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