Anaphors (elements such as himself) generally require an antecedent, but languages have been found to show striking differences as to where such antecedents may occur. This book is concerned with the general laws underlying this diversity, covering a wide variety of languages.

1. Long distance anaphora: an overview Eric Reuland and Jan Koster; 2. Containment and connectedness anaphors Lars Hellan; 3. Long distance reflexives and the typology of NPs Hoskulder Thrainsson; 4. Contextual determination of the anaphor/pronominal distinction Martin Eaveraert; 5. On the interaction between antecedent government and binding: the case of long distance reflexivization Pierre Pica; 6. Binding in Polish Ewa Reinders-Machowska; 7. Anaphors in binary trees: an analysis of Czech reflexives Jindrick Toman; 8. Latin long distance anaphora Elena Benedicto; 9. Prepositions, binding and theta-marking Allessandra Giorgi; 10. Locality, parameters and some issues in Italian syntax Rita Manzini; 11. Long distance binding in Finnish Marlies Van Steenbergen; 12. The primacy condition on anaphors and pronominal variable binding E. Kiss Katalin; 13. On the local nature of the long distance reflexive in Chinese C. T. James Huang and C. C. Jane Tang; 14. Anaphors and logophors: an argument structure perspective Tanya Reinhart and Eric Reuland.