Fredrik Heinat

Long object shift and reflexives

This talk concerns a mismatch in agreement between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent in Swedish. In certain contexts a 1st or a 2nd person pronoun can bind a 3rd person reflexive. There are both syntactic and semantic restrictions on the . A syntactic prerequisite is that the reflexive has undergone object shift. The semantic/pragmatic prerequisite is that the 1st or 2nd pronoun must be modified so the discourse context implies a third person referent. I will discuss two analyses, one based on Cardinaletti and Starke (1999), and one based on Culicover and Jackendoff (2006). Finally I provide an outline of an analysis that makes use of ideas from these two, and in addition incorporates parts of Bonet's (1995) analysis of clitic clusters in Romance.