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ISBN 10: 0521590582

ISBN 13: 9780521590587

Author: C.-T. James Huang, Y.-H. Audrey Li, Yafei Li

The past quarter of a century has seen a surge in Chinese syntactic research that has produced a sizeable literature on the analysis of almost every construction in Mandarin Chinese. This guide to Chinese syntax analyses the majority of constructions in Chinese that have featured in theoretical linguistics in the past 25 years, using the authors’ own analyses as well as existing or potential alternative treatments. A broad variety of topics are covered, including categories, argument structure, passives and anaphora. The discussion of each topic sums up the key research results and provides new points of departure for further research. This book will be invaluable both to students wanting to know more about the grammar of Chinese, and graduate students and theoretical linguists interested in the universal principles that underlie human languages.

The Syntax of Chinese 1st Table of contents:

1 Categories

1.1 Lexical categories

1.1.1 Verbs and nouns – basic distinctions

1.1.2 Localizers

1.1.3 Adjectives

1.1.4 Prepositions

1.2 Functional categories

1.2.1 [Fn]…

1.2.2 [F] and the modifier-introducing de

2 Argument structure

2.1 Arguments and theta-roles

2.1.1 Basic properties of theta-roles

2.1.2 Chinese resultative compounds: a case study

2.1.3 Compounds vs. phrases

2.2 On the nature of theta-roles

2.2.1 Theta-roles produced by the syntax

2.2.2 What’s in a verb?

2.2.3 Squeezing a lexical foot into a functional shoe

2.3 Sketching an alternative theory of theta-roles

2.3.1 How a lexical entry contributes to the argument structure

2.3.2 The theory

2.3.3 Facts explained

2.4 In place of a conclusion

3 The verb phrase

3.1 Adjuncts and complements

3.2 Postverbal constituents

3.2.1 Double objects and the structure of VP

3.2.2 V-de

3.2.3 Frequency/Duration Phrases (FP/DrP)

3.3 Preverbal constituents

3.3.1 Aspectual phrase

3.3.2 Modals

3.4 Summary

4 Passives

4.1 The Mandarin long passive

4.1.1 Two competing traditions

4.1.2 The analysis

4.1.3 Further evidence for the NOP analysis

4.2 The Mandarin short passive

4.2.1 Against the Agent-deletion analysis

4.2.2 Analysis of the short passive

4.3 The analysis of indirect passives

4.3.1 Direct vs. indirect passives

4.3.2 The inclusive indirect passive

4.3.3 The adversative passive

4.4 Summary

5 The ba construction

5.1 ba and bei constructions

5.2 What is ba ?

5.2.1 The categorial status of ba

5.2.2 The analysis of ba

5.3 ba not a theta-role assigner

5.3.1 ba and the subject

5.3.2 ba and the post-ba NP

5.4 Structures

5.4.1 A preliminary analysis

5.4.2 Revision

5.5 “Affected”

5.6 Alternatives

5.7 Summary

6 Topic and relative constructions

6.1 Topic structures

6.1.1 Movement or not?

6.1.2 Island conditions

6.2 Relative structures

6.2.1 Distribution and interpretation

6.2.2 Movement

6.2.3 Base generation

6.2.4 Relative operator

6.2.5 NP adjunction

6.3 Gapless structures

7 Questions

7.1 yes–no questions

7.2 Disjunctive questions

7.3 A-not-A questions

7.3.1 Three types of A-not-A questions

7.3.2 A-not-A questions: a modular approach

7.3.3 Explaining the differences

7.3.4 VP-neg questions

7.3.5 Summary

7.4 wh-questions

7.4.1 A movement approach to

7.4.2 LF movement: some problems and alternatives

7.4.3 LF Subjacency and pied-piping

7.4.4 Non-movement and unselective binding

7.5 Summary

8 Nominal expressions

8.1 The issues

8.2 Projecting a DP – referential and quantity expressions

8.2.1 Number expressions as indefinite and quantity expressions

8.2.2 Quantity vs. indefiniteness

8.2.3 Number phrase and determiner phrase

8.2.4 Comparison with indefinite

8.2.5 Comparison with

8.2.6 Prohibition against an indefinite subject/topic

8.2.7 Summary

8.3 Order and constituency within a DP

8.3.1 Demonstratives

8.3.2 Pronouns

8.3.3 Proper names

8.3.4 Common nouns

8.3.5 Not appositives or adverbials

8.3.6 Summary

8.4 Extension and revision: plurality

8.4.1 Some puzzles about –

8.4.2 Plural feature as head of NumP

8.4.3 Proper name

8.5 Summary and some empirical complications

8.5.1 Non-quantity indefinite nominals in subject position

8.5.2 Non-root clauses, generic NPs

9 Anaphora

9.1 Binding Theory in Chinese

9.1.1 Reflexives and Principle A

9.1.2 Pronouns and Principle B

9.1.3 Principles C and D

9.2 The bare reflexive

9.2.1 Two approaches to the long-distance ziji

9.2.2 Logophoricity and anaphoricity

9.2.3 Logophoricity: syntax and semantics

9.3 Bound anaphora and donkey anaphora

9.3.1 Pronouns in coreference or as bound variables

9.3.2 Variable binding: scope, accessibility, and disjointness

9.3.3 Indefinites and donkey anaphora

9.4 Summary and conclusion

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