Rivero, Maria-Luisa,Aizu, Yoriko.2009-03-232009-03-2320012001Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-05, page: 1117.9780612659964http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9081http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-7632This thesis explores the reflexivity approach to zibun-binding. The paradoxical nature of zibun as an anaphor and a pronominal has invited much debate, and the status of zibun is still an unsolved subject in the framework of a standard binding theory proposed by Chomsky (1981). A reflexivity analysis proposed by Reinhart and Reuland's gives a satisfactory account of the Japanese reflexive zibun and its binding behavior. Under their analysis, zibun is categorized as a SE anaphor. The reflexivity refers to the function of marking two arguments of a verb as coreferential. When verbs are reflexive-marked, two arguments are coreferential. Then anti-locality of zibun can be explained with different verb types: one type is verbs which are intrinsically reflexive and the other is verbs which are not reflexive-marked.89 p.Language, Linguistics.Thesis