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In this paper, a long distance binding of reflexives in Northeast Asian languages such as Korean, Japanese and Chinese is revisited with Binding Principle A in Chomsky (1981). It is argued that the apparent differences between English and Northeast Asian languages result from the interaction of the ECP, depending on whether Infl is a lexical or a functional category. In addition, it is assumed that reflexives can be divided into two different forms: nonphrasal forms (casin, zibun, ziji in Northeast Asian langauges) vs. phrasal forms (himself, myself etc. in English). Nonphrasal form reflexives can be either local or long distant, whereas phrasal form reflexives are strictly local. Thus, seemingly different bounded dependencies between reflexives and their antecedents can be accounted for by the same principle with parameters.