Reflexives and participants: a natural class

This paper investigates restrictions on the occurence of reflexive anaphors and 1st and 2nd person pronouns in double object constructions in French and in Swahili. It argues that 1st and 2nd person pronouns and reflexives form a natural class, characterized by its contextual dependency, formalized as an unvalued semantico-syntactic index feature [ID]. PCC effects and special licensing conditions arise from the need of such elements to get their reference valued in syntax via Agree.