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Koh, Taejin & Kim, Dohun. (2017). Verbal Reflexive as a SELF Anaphor in Ho. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 25(1), 55-73. Ho is one of the very few languages on the Indian Subcontinent that rely exclusively on the verbal reflective. Its non-overt object is the empty category; and its reflexive morpheme is an argument-absorbing operator that detransitivizes the verb. Moreover, the intransitive marker functions as the verbal and passive markers. Such observations compel this study to assume that the nature of Hos verbal reflexive is fundamentally associated with its non-overt object. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the verbal reflexive, this study sets out to provide an overall description of the properties of Hos verbal reflexive, followed by a thorough examination of its nature within the framework of predicate-centered binding theory put forward by Reinhart (1983) and Reinhart and Reuland (1993).
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