Exempt itself

Overview & Synopsis

This article observes the use and grammaticality of exempt-itself: inanimate reflexives without local antecedents in British and American English. Potential consequences are set out for work that uses the unavailability of exempt-itself to explore Condition A, exemptness and logophoricity, and implicit arguments. Analyses of exempt self-forms compatible with exempt-itself include long-distance anaphora, which fits most data, but bars reduction of long-distance anaphora to local anaphora + logophora; and prominence-sensitive anaphora, which have analogues like NOC PRO.