抄録
One of the major findings in previous research on reflexive coreference in a second language context is that learners of English violate the locality requirement of the English reflexive form x-self more readily when it appears in the subordinate infinitival clause than when it is found in the subordinate tensed clause. This paper attempts to show that the cause of this asymmetry is the difference in the event structure inherent to the situation to be described, rather than the difference in the structural type of the sentence per se. In an experiment that was conducted to test the validity of this postulation, the learners responded differently to the different degrees of factivity presumed in individual sentences, in line with the prediction. This result is important not only in theoretical terms but from a pedagogical point of view as well.
