Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography

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A crosslinguistic perspective

Si Fuzhen Si(Editor)

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Intro
Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography
Editorial page
Title page
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Chapter 1. Introduction: On the comparative basis of cartographic studies
1. General background
2. The growth of the empirical coverage and the impact of the study of African languages
3. The importance of comparative studies and the cartography of East Asian languages
4. The contributions
Acknowledgements
References
Section I. Theoretical and descriptive issues in syntactic cartography: A cross-linguistic perspective
Chapter 2. Cartography and selection in subjunctives and interrogatives
1. The problem
2. Structure of the paper
3. The selection of (subjunctive) mood
4. Selection and agreement in indirect questions
4.1 Wh interrogatives
4.2 Yes-No interrogatives
5. FORCE in root clauses
6. Summary and conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 3. The syntax and information-structural semantics of negative inversion in English and their implications for the theory of focus
1. Introduction
2. Previous studies
2.1 Haegeman (2000, 2012)
2.2 Leonetti & Escandell-Vidal (2009)
3. Some empirical and conceptual problems: Treatment of polarity focus fronting
4. Proposal
4.1 Cruschina's (2011) two-layered focus hypothesis
4.2 Application to NI
5. Supportive evidence
5.1 Focus-verb adjacency
5.2 Non-contrastive use of NI
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Funding
References
Chapter 4. Invariant die and adverbial resumption in the Ghent dialect
1. Scope and goals of the chapter
1.1 The V2 constraint
1.2 Resumptive V3
1.3 Resumption in the Ghent dialect
1.4 Goals
2. Adverbial resumption: Specialized resumption vs. generalized resumption
2.1 Specialized resumptives
2.2 Generalized resumptives
2.3 Specialized vs. generalized resumptives
3. Invariant die in the Ghent dialect
3.1 The initial adverbial constituent
3.2 Discourse function of the resumptive patterns
3.3 The resumptive constituent
3.4 Summary and outline of a derivation
4. The cartography of invariant die resumption
4.1 The ingredients
4.2 The options
4.3 Invariant die as a left peripheral expletive
4.4 Invariant die as a left peripheral head
4.5 Enriching the Wolfe/Poletto hypothesis: An articulated left periphery
5. Summary
References
Chapter 5. Uncovering the left periphery of Etruscan: Some theoretical insights
1. Introduction
2. Cartography and syntacticisation as formal tools
2.1 Cartography and reordering
2.2 Linguistic variability in activating criterial positions
3. Reorderings in Etruscan
3.1 Some notes on the syntax of Etruscan
3.2 "Speaking objects" and reorderings: A criterial approach
4. Uncovering further portions of the left periphery: Relatives and imperatives
5. Conclusions
References
Chapter 6. Subject drop in how come questions in English
1. Introduction
2. Subject drop in how come questions in diary English
3. Null Case particle in Japanese
4. Summary
Acknowledgements
Funding
References
Appendix. Lower topic: Agreement properties in the CP zone
Chapter 7. Causativity alternation in the lower field
1. Introduction
2. The morpho-syntactic nature of non-active morphology
2.1 The multiples ways of anticausatives realization in SA
2.2 Non-active morphology in SA
3. Anticausative morphology is not a part of the root
3.1 Locality between roots and little v
4. Anticausative morphology and transcategorial derivation
5. Adverb distribution within anticausatives
5.1 Repetitive and restitutive adverbs
5.2 PP instruments and goals
6. Causativity and agentivity in event nominals
6.1 Adverbs distribution in nominal domains
6.2 Agentivity in event nominals
7. Conclusion
References
Chapter 8. Another argument for the differences among wa-marked phrases
1. Introduction
2. Previous analyses on the Japanese particle wa
3. Japanese data
3.1 Types of adverbs and their structural positions
3.2 wa-marked phrases and their structural positions
3.3 Scopal interactions between negation and wa-marked phrases
3.4 Scopal interactions between verbs and wa-marked phrases
3.5 Scopal interactions between focus particle and wa-marked phrases
3.6 Scopal interactions between DPs in DOC
4. Hungarian and German data
4.1 Hungarian data
4.2 German data
5. Elaborated left periphery in both CP and vP domains
6. Conclusion, apparent problems, and theoretical implications
Acknowledgements
Funding
References
Section II. Theoretical and descriptive issues in syntactic cartography: A Chinese linguistic perspective
Chapter 9. Quantifictional binding without surface c-command in Mandarin Chinese
1. Introduction
2. The case of Chinese: Previous literature
3. A preliminary first attempt to account for QBWC in Chinese
4. Problems of the preliminary attempt
5. Scope requirement on quantificational binding
6. Scope ambiguity and quantificational binding
7. Weak crossover and the c-command requirement
8. Dou and the scope of universal NPs
9. Conclusions, implications and residues problems
Acknowledgements
Funding
References
Chapter 10. Towards a cartography of light verbs
1. Introduction
2. About the term "light verb"
2.1 LVNs vs. LVBs
2.2 Characteristics of "light verb" in Jespersenian sense
2.3 Huang's light verb analysis in Chinese
3. Internal configuration of light verb structures
3.1 Observation step 1: Simplex Light Verb Shell Structures
3.2 Observation step 2: Complex Light Verb Shell Structures
4. Concluding remarks
References
Chapter 11. Attitudinal applicative in action
1. A peculiar pronoun
2. Previous studies of applicative pronouns in TSM
3. The (non-)referentiality of i from a cross-linguistic viewpoint
4. The status of attitudinal i and its habitat
5. The syntax of attitude: A cartographic analysis
6. Further consequences: A cross-dialectal perspective
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Funding
References
Chapter 12. Multiple counterparts of Mandarin qu (go) in Teochew and their cartographic distributions: A new perspective into its multiple syntactic functions and grammaticalization process
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical primaries: Cartography approach
3. An in-depth analysis of k'u
3.1 k'u as Verb head
3.2 'K'u' as Comp of VP
3.3 'K'u' as Aspect head
3.4 'K'u' as Voice head
3.5 'K'u' as v head
3.6 Interim conclusion
4. An in-depth analysis of k'a
4.1 Progressive aspect
4.2 Speaker-oriented
4.3 Interim conclusion
5. An in-depth analysis of k'?
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 13. On the syntactic representation of Chinese you (?) in "yoy + VP" construction
1. Introduction
2. Previous studies on "you + VP" construction
3. A syntax-semantic mismatch of you
4. Verification of the features on you
5. A cartographic attempt: The licensing of you
5.1 A synthetic viewpoint
5.2 A syntactic analysis
6. Concluding remarks
References
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