The local binding domain that is decisive for the distribution of reflexive and reciprocal pronouns is also decisive for personal pronouns, but in a different way.
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"' Reciprocal pronouns "'are a type of pronoun which can be used to refer to a noun phrase mentioned earlier in a sentence.
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Personal pronouns have a distribution that is different from reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, a point that is evident with the first two b-sentences in the previous section.
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In examining the scope of reciprocal pronouns, we can see that in English, the antecedent must be plural and must receive at least a ( weakly ) distributed interpretation.
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The rules governing allowable syntactic relations between certain pro-forms ( notably personal and reflexive / reciprocal pronouns ) and their antecedents have been studied in what is called binding theory.
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The b-sentences, in contrast, do not allow the indicated reading, a fact illustrating that personal pronouns have a distribution that is different from that of reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.
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The main difference between reflexives, as in example ( 1 ), and reciprocal pronouns, as in example ( 2 ), is that reflexives are used when the subject acts upon itself.
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As we can see in the X-bar theory tree diagram of ( 6b ), the reciprocal pronoun is in the subject position of the embedded clause, which is introduced by complementizer " that ".
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The difference between the two Dutch reciprocal pronouns is in terms of their use and frequency of use . " Mekaar " is used less often, mainly in colloquial speech and in children's speech.
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Below are examples of reciprocal pronouns and how their relationship to their antecedents contrasts to cases of reflexive pronoun relationships, and regular transitive relationships, and how they behave in relation to direct object pronouns in the same situation.
