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The goal of this paper is to come up with a new phase-based analysis of English reflexive pronouns, without any reliance on such GB concepts as government, reconstruction, levels of representation, and indices, which are taken to be conceptually and empirically unnecessary in the framework of the Minimalist Program (MP). To achieve this aim, a new analytical model is formed, based on assumptions revolving around the phase theory. As it turns out, the new phase-based analytical model can account for the derivations of problematic examples containing picture NP reflexives as well as those of the canonical and ECM-related sentences containing reflexives, by distinguishing two kinds of reflexives. This paper reveals that the clausemate principle can be reduced to the phasemate principle in the framework of the phase theory, and that the grammaticality of the sentences containing non-picture NP reflexives can be determined even before the whole derivations of them have been completed whereas that of the constructions containing picture NP reflexives can not