New explorations in Chinese theoretical syntax : studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li

New explorations in Chinese theoretical syntax : studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li / edited by Andrew Simpson.

"This volume brings together 19 cutting edge studies written by some of the most prominent linguists working on Chinese formal syntax, as a Festschrift volume dedicated to Yen-Hui Audrey Li. The contributions to the volume address a wide range of issues currently developing in the field of Chin...

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Other Authors: Simpson, Andrew, 1962- (Editor), Li, Yen-hui Audrey, 1954- (honouree.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 272.
Subjects:
Chinese language > Syntax.
Chinese language > Syntax
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax
  • Copyright page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • References
  • Part I. The structure of lexical and functional projections
  • Finiteness, opacity, and Chinese clausal architecture
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Finiteness distinctions in Chinese and properties that diagnose them
  • 2.1 Scale of independence
  • 2.2 Scale of opacity
  • 2.3 Scale of integration
  • 3. Finiteness and clausal architecture
  • 3.1 Finiteness as clause size
  • 3.2 On C-selection and clause-size reduction
  • 4. Finiteness and syntactic coding
  • 4.1 Finiteness in nominal complementation
  • 4.2 Finiteness beyond complement types
  • 4.3 Finiteness and syntactic encoding
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Place and distance: Locative expressions in Mandarin and Cantonese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Preliminaries
  • 3. The AxPart
  • 4. The AxPart and measure
  • 5. The AxPart and ground
  • 6. Place and the N place
  • 7. Modification or apposition
  • 8. A brief note about the alternative form
  • 9. Conclusion
  • References
  • "Descriptive complements" are manner adverbials
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 The descriptive construction
  • 1.2 Two types of choice for an analysis
  • 1.3 Organization
  • 2. Equivocal evidence
  • 3. (Potentially) deciding evidence
  • 3.1 Selection
  • 3.2 Argument structure
  • 4. Two non-arguments for the Complement Hypothesis
  • 4.1 Extraction from DES
  • 4.2 Postverbal position
  • 5. Summary and conclusion
  • References
  • SVCs in disguise: The so-called "directional verb compounds" in Mandarin Chinese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Clearing the ground
  • 2.1 Three verb classes
  • 2.2 SVCs: Complex and simple: Vdisplacement (Vdirectional) lái/qù 'come/go'
  • 2.3 "Directional verb compounds" not to be analysed as SVCs
  • 2.4 Interim summary
  • 3. Internal argument sharing SVCs ( Collins 1997, 2002)
  • 3.2 Previous proposals
  • a short overview
  • 4. Aktionsart differences between adjacent and non-adjacent orders in SVCs
  • 5. Constraints on the position of definite object DPs in SVCs
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Part II. Modal verb syntax
  • Modal movement licensed by focus
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. High root modals and focus
  • 2.1 Focus interpretations
  • 2.2 A-not-A questions and polarity questions
  • 3. Previous approaches to high root modals
  • 3.1 Base generation approaches
  • 3.2 The interpretation of high root modals
  • 4. A movement approach
  • 4.1 Modal movement and the calculation of the focus set
  • 4.2 A-not-A questions and focus reading
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Negative modals and prohibitives in Taiwanese Southern Min
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. M-modals and b-modals
  • 2.1 Basic data
  • 2.2 Distinctions between m-modals and b-modals
  • 3. M-modals and control
  • 3.1 Directive modals as complementizer

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