Lee, Jeong-Shik (1995). Reflexive Verbs in English. Linguistics, Vol. 3. This paper is concerned with certain class of verbs in English that can appear only with a reflexive pronoun, but not with any other objects including a reciprocal. These verbs are called reflexive verbs, or Rf-verbs, and are analyzed as E_rf-Vs, where E_rf represents an empty reflexive affix containing a feature [+refl]. The status of a reflexive pronoun with Rf-verbs is identified as a VP-internal adverbial NP selected by these verbs. Under the anaphor movement analysis, this reflexive is assumed to undergo X^0 -raising, and in the first step to the Rf-verbs, the [+refl] feature of these verbs is checked. This checking is not possible with a reciprocal due to feature mismatch. This accounts for the fact that only a reflexive, but not a reciprocal, appears with the reflexive verbs.