What prevents pronominals from being locally bound? Does this a)reflectan intrinsic property of pronominals (Chomsky 1981), is it b) a relative(economy) effect, that only shows up where there is a more dedicated competitor(see from different perspectives, Safir 2004, Boeckx, Hornstein and Nunes 2007,Levinson 2000), does it c) have a semantic basis as in Schlenker (2005), or does itd) follow from general conditions on agree based chains, and reflexive predicates(Reuland 2011a)? To help resolve this issue, we investigate Khanty (Uralic, spokenin Northwest Siberia), a language that is reported to allow locally bound pronominals(Nikolaeva 1995), and assess whether it in fact does have them, and, whichfactors come into play when local binding obtains.