New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax

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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
3.2 Logophoric PRO and directive modal complementizer
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Part III. Syntax-semantics interactions
Skolemized topicality for indefinites and universal quantifier mei-phrases in Chinese
1. Introduction
2. The subject mei-phrase requiring co-occurrences of dou/indefinites/reflexives in its predicates
3. Specificity of subject indefinites
3.1 Indefinite subjects
3.2 Stage-level predicates (SLPs) enhanced by spacio-temporal anchoring with indefinite subjects ( S.-Z. Huang 2004)
4. Proposal - Skolemized topicality for subject indefinites and universal quantifier mei-QPs
4.1 The Skolemized topicality hypothesis vs. the Skolemized EVERY hypothesis ( S.-Z. Huang 1996, 2005)
4.2 How a Skolem function works with topical indefinites and topical mei-QP
5. Universal quantifiers as topics in Chinese
5.1 Xu & Liu (2007)
5.2 Mei-phrase in the topic position for scoping- Wu & Larson (2019)
6. Indefinites as topics in Chinese
6.1 Specificity/referentiality of the indefinite subjects and TopicP
6.2 SLPs and Topic
6.3 Xu & Liu (2007) on Indefinites as topics
7. On Mei-VP
8. Testing the Skolemized topicality hypothesis on Ba-constructions
9. Comparing Skolemized topicality with simple topicality proposed in Xu & Liu 2007
10. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Chinese comparatives: Commentary on clausal vs. phrasal analyses
1. Introduction
2. Recent analyses of Chinese comparatives
3. Challenges to the clausal approach
3.1 Problems with comparative deletion
3.2 Problems with subcomparatives and embedded standards
4.3 Erlewine's (2018) account and problems
5. Remarks on arguments against the phrasal analysis
5.1 Arguments based on complex predicate constructions
5.2 Erlewine's (2018) Arguments based on movement chains
6. Liu's (2011) arguments against Lin's (2009) analysis
6.1 Rang-constructions
6.2 Reason clauses
6.3 Object comparison in multiple standard comparatives
7. A Revision of Lin (2009)
8. Conclusion
References
Head dependency and degree words in Mandarin
1. Introduction
2. Observations on ji in the JI-LE construction
3. Observations on S-le in the JI-LE construction
4. The head dependencies in the JI-LE construction
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Constraints on the representation of anaphoric definiteness in Mandarin Chinese: A reassessment
1. Introduction
2. Two ways to encode definiteness
2.1 Jenks (2018) and Mandarin Chinese
3. Probing the potential use of bare nouns as anaphoric definites in Mandarin
3.1 NPs introduced by ba ?
3.2 NPs introduced by ti ?
3.3 NPs introduced by gen
3.4 NPs introduced by zai ?
3.5 Revisiting direct and indirect objects
3.6 Conclusions, consequences and extensions
3.7 Discourse constraints on the bare noun pattern in anaphoric definiteness
4. The representation of anaphoric definites in Korean, Hindi, and Cantonese
4.1 Korean
4.2 Hindi
4.3 Cantonese
5. Summary and conclusions
References
Noncanonical arguments via the high applicative
0. Introduction
1. On the facts and the existing analyses
1.1 Lin's (2001) original theory: Bare roots plus s-syntactic light verbs
1.2 My own analysis: Bare roots with no light verbs at all
1.3 A. Li's theory: A thematic hierarchy via light verbs
1.4 Zhang's (2018) ergative verb approach
2. An applicative-based alternative account
2.1 High applicatives and their use in a low-applicative language
2.2 How does syntax deal with a bare lexical root?
2.3 ApplH vs. light verbs
3. Conclusion
References
Applied objects in Mandarin and the nature of selection
1. Introduction
2. Oblique arguments in Mandarin
2.1 Monotransitives with circumstantial roles
2.2 Monotransitives with possessive roles
2.3 Ditransitives
3. Projection via ?-features
3.1 ?-roles as formal features
3.2 More on syntactic features ( Pesetsky and Torrego 2007)
3.3 Further refinements
3.4 Argument inversion
4. Mandarin oblique arguments as applied objects
4.1 Monotransitives with canonical subjects and objects
4.2 Monotransitives with canonical subjects and circumstantial objects
4.3 Monotransitives with circumstantial subjects and objects
4.4 Ditransitives
4.5 Monotransitives with possesor subjects and possessum objects
5. Syntax, semantics and selection
5.1 Selection as semantic
5.2 Selection as syntactic
5.3 Cross-linguistic variation in selection
Acknowledgments
References
On the syntax of incompleteness: Evidence from the converbal construction in Cantonese
1. Introduction: Cantonese verbal suffixes
2. Three types of verbal suffixes
2.1 Type 1 verbal suffixes
2.2 Type 2 verbal suffixes
2.3 Type 3 verbal suffixes
2.4 A summary
3. Syntax of marginality and incompleteness
3.1 Marginality: Type 2 verbal suffixes
3.2 Incompleteness: Type 3 verbal suffixes
4. Converbal properties of type 3 verbal suffixes
4.1 Present participles and gerunds
4.2 Converbs
5. Concluding remarks
References
Part IV. The syntax and interpretation of particles
On the syntax of mirativity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese
1. Setting the stage
2. Mirativity as a distinctive category
3. The syntax of speech act and mirativity
4. Further issues
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgments
References
On the mirative marker leh4 in Taiwanese Southern Min
1. Introduction
2. The SFP Leh4 ? as a continuative marker or a mood particle in Chen (2020)
3. Mirativity in previous literature
4. Two usages of the SFP Leh4 ?
4.1 Leh4 ? as a continuative marker
4.2 Leh4 ? as a mirative marker
4.3 Syntactic positions
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations used for the TSM and Japanese data
References
Non-veridical kaN in Taiwanese Southern Min
1. Introduction
2. KaN
2.1 The development of kaN
2.2 KaN as a non-veridical operator
3. A modal analysis of si
3.1 Assertion of a proposition vs. assertion of a proposition's truth
3.2 Nonveridical equilibrium
4. Syntax-pragmatics interface
5. Summary
Acknowledgments
References
Sentence-internal discourse particles in Mandarin Chinese
1. Introduction
2. General meaning and properties of S-internal DisPs
2.1 Meaning contributions and discourse effects
2.2 General properties
3. Syntactic properties of S-internal DisPs
3.1 Linear order in the clause
3.2 DisPs in embedded clauses
4. Meaning contribution of S-internal DisPs
4.1 Discourse components and the table model
4.2 Marking unexpectedness: The particle dào
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References:
Part V. Acquisition of syntactic structures
V-gei vs. double object construction: The mental representation of the Mandarin V-gei construction
1. Introduction
2. Previous syntactic priming studies
3. Experiment
Participants
Materials & procedure
Scoring
Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
References
Appendix
Predicting the unpredictable: -le used in Chinese serial verb constructions
0. Introduction
1. Scope of the study of serial verb constructions (SVCs)
2. Studies on -le used in SVC
3. Corpus study
3.1 Research questions
3.2 Data collection and coding
3.3 Results
3.4 Discussion
4. Conclusion and pedagogical implications
References
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