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NP Versus DP Reflexives: Evidence from Malagasy
- Oceanic Linguistics
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 43, Number 1, June 2004
- pp. 32-48
- 10.1353/ol.2004.0015
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This article examines the Malagasy anaphor tena 'body. It is shown that this anaphor is a bare noun (NP) and therefore has a highly restricted distribution. Tena is then contrasted with another anaphor-like element, ny tenany 'her/his body'. It is argued that ny tenany is not an anaphor, per se, but a complex nominal (DP) with a possessive pronoun that need not be bound.