The Dynamics of a Japanese Reflexive Pronoun

摘要

This paper is concerned with the interpretation of the 'long-distance reflexive' zibun. I propose a new way to handle this item designed to account for intersentential binding facts. The account is couched within a version of dynamic semantics enriched with a notion of perspective. In the final part of the paper I show that this approach can be extended to account for intrasententially bound and indexical uses of zibun.