The Role that φ-Features Play in Long Distance Binding

.INTRODUCTIONThis article attempts to investigate long distance binding in Chinese under a feature- orientated ap-proach based on the studies done by Battistella ( 1 989) ,Tang ( 1 986) ,Cole and Sung ( 1 990 ) and oth-ers.The data presented in this article demonstrated,contrary to the prevailing assumption that- fea-tures of reflexives in various language are base generated,long distance reflexives before movement atL F have barren or impoverishedφ- features.On this basis,itis demonstrated thata reflexive ...