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Reflexive

SYNTAX: expression such as himself in English, which must be anaphorically related to an antecedent. EXAMPLE: herself in (i) is a reflexive with Mary as its antecedent.

(i) Maryi dresses herselfi well
Reflexives behave as anaphors with respect to the binding theory.
LIT. Chomsky, N. (1981)