International Journal of Linguistics ISSN 1948-5425 2013, Vol. 5, No. 4 www.macrothink.org/ijl 109 Anaphors in Magahi: A Binding Theoretic Treatment Lata Atreya (Corresponding author) Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, Bihar, India E-mail: lata16@iitp.ac.in/lata.atreya@gmail.com Rajesh Kumar Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India E-mail: thisisrajkumar@gmail.com Received: June 5, 2013 Accepted: July 13, 2013 Published: August 25, 2013 doi:10.5296/ijl.v5i4.3814 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v5i4.3814 Abstract This paper analyses anaphors in Magahi in Binding Theory. Magahi is a South Asian language of the Indo-Aryan family of languages. Anaphors in Magahi are consistent with the Principle-A of Binding Theory. Magahi anaphors display operator like properties as they depend on the nature of the clause they are embedded in. In a finite clause anaphor is subject oriented whereas in a non-finite clause anaphor is a PRO which in turn depends on the object of the main clause. The position of anaphors in non-finite clause is fixed. They can neither be moved nor can be scrambled. However, in finite clauses they can easily be scrambled. Keywords: Anaphors, Binding theory, Operator, Scrambling