Screen LibraryNew explorations in Chinese theoretical syntax : studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li /
"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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John Benjamins Publishing Company,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today (LA),
volume 272 |
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| Summary: |
"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 Chinese syntax, grouped into five thematic sections on the structure of lexical and functional projections, modal verb syntax, syntax-semantics interactions, the syntax and interpretation of particles, and the acquisition of syntactic structures. With its rich descriptive content sourced from different varieties of Chinese, and its theoretical orientation and analyses, the book provides an important new resource both for researchers with a primary interest in Chinese and other linguists interested in discovering how properties of Chinese can inform the analysis of other languages"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 577 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789027210678 9027210675 |
| Index Number: | PL1241 |
| CLC: | H14 |
| Call Number: | H14/N532 |
| Contents: |
The structure of lexical and functional projections -- Finiteness, opacity, and Chinese clausal architecture / Place and distance : Locative expressions in Mandarin and Cantonese / "Descriptive complements" are manner adverbials / SVCs in disguise : the so-called "directional verb compounds" in Mandarin Chinese / Modal verb syntax -- Modal movement licensed by focus / Negative modals and prohibitives in Taiwanese Southern Min / Syntax-semantics interactions -- Skolemized topicality for indefinites and universal quantifier mei-phrases in Chinese / Chinese comparatives : Commentary on clausal vs. phrasal analyses / Head dependency and degree words in Mandarin / Constraints on the representation of anaphoric definiteness in Mandarin Chinese : a reassessment / Noncanonical arguments via the high applicative / Applied objects in Mandarin and the nature of selection / On the syntax of incompleteness : Evidence from the converbal construction in Cantonese / The syntax and interpretation of particles -- On the syntax of mirativity : Evidence from Mandarin Chinese / On the mirative marker leh⁴ in Taiwanese Southern Min / Non-veridical kaN in Taiwanese Southern Min / Sentence-internal discourse particles in Mandarin Chinese / Acquisition of syntactic structures -- V-gei vs. double object construction : the mental representation of the Mandarin V-gei construction / Predicting the unpredictable : -le used in Chinese serial verb constructions / |