The Syntax Of Mandarin Interrogatives

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The Syntax Of Mandarin Interrogatives

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Author : Earl Rand
language : en
Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press
Release Date : 1969

The Syntax Of Mandarin Interrogatives written by Earl Rand and has been published by Berkeley, University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Foreign Language Study categories.

The Syntax Of Mandarin Interrogatives

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Author : Rand, Earl
language : en
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
Release Date : 1969

The Syntax Of Mandarin Interrogatives written by Rand, Earl and has been published by Berkeley : University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Chinese language categories.

The Syntax Of Mandarin Interrogatives

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Author : Earl Rand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969

The Syntax Of Mandarin Interrogatives written by Earl Rand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Chinese language categories.

The Syntax Of Answers To Yes No Questions In Mandarin

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Author : Hongyan Zhao
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018

The Syntax Of Answers To Yes No Questions In Mandarin written by Hongyan Zhao and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.

The Syntax Of Chinese Interrogative Structures

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Author : Earl James Rand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977

The Syntax Of Chinese Interrogative Structures written by Earl James Rand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Chinese language categories.

Chinese Syntax In A Cross Linguistic Perspective

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Author : Yen-hui Audrey Li
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015

Chinese Syntax In A Cross Linguistic Perspective written by Yen-hui Audrey Li and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Foreign Language Study categories.

Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective collects twelve new papers that explore the syntax of Chinese in comparison with other languages.

New Explorations In Chinese Theoretical Syntax

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Author : Andrew Simpson
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2022-04-15

New Explorations In Chinese Theoretical Syntax written by Andrew Simpson and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

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.

Patient Subject Constructions In Mandarin Chinese

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Author : Xiaoling He
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2019-06-15

Patient Subject Constructions In Mandarin Chinese written by Xiaoling He and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous descriptions which were framed in terms of pre-existing grammatical notions such as ‘topicalization’, ‘passivization’ and ‘ergativization’, this book offers a fresh look at the PSC, in which its syntactic and semantic as well as its discourse functions are examined within the system of major construction-types of the language as a whole. The PSC, being low in transitivity, serves primarily the function of backgrounding in discourse. Typologically, the PSC bears a resemblance to middle constructions in Indo-European and other languages, raising interesting questions about ways to understand congruent and divergent syntactic structures across the world’s languages. This book will be of interest to students of Chinese Linguistics as well as Language Typology.

The Cartography Of Chinese Syntax

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Author : Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015

The Cartography Of Chinese Syntax written by Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Foreign Language Study categories.

This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. The chapters in this book map out the "topography" of a variety of constructions in Chinese, specifically information structure, wh-question formation, and peripheral functional elements. The syntactic structure of Chinese makes it an ideal language for this line of research, offering a window into the origin of heavily "scrambled" constructions often observed in other languages.

No Matter Whether You Ask

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Author : Zhuo Chen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022

No Matter Whether You Ask written by Zhuo Chen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.

This dissertation describes and analyzes the syntactic properties of three inter-related structures in both standard and non-standard varieties of Mandarin: yes-no question, unconditional adverbial clauses, and verb echo answers to yes-no questions.All human languages have ways to ask a yes-no question, but cross-linguistically they differ from each other in the exact strategies used. I systematically look at a type of sentence-internal question particle that is only used in forming yes-no questions in Jianghuai Mandarin, providing cross-linguistic evidence for Bhatt & Dayal's (2020) proposal about the existence of a class of dedicated yes-no question particles in human languages. I further compare three types of yes-no questions formed with a sentence-internal question particle ha/a or/and an A-not-A string in two mutually intelligible varieties of Jianghuai Mandarin spoken in Wuhu and Nanjing. The distributional differences between ha/a and A-not-A string are understandable if they are within two separate functional projections, QuP and PolP respectively. Meanwhile, the parallel behaviors of all three types of yes-no questions are taken as evidence that they all share the same underlying structure that involve both QuP and PolP, and the variation in their surface forms is reduced to the lexicon. Building on Holmberg's (2016) analysis of yes-no questions, I argue that the syntax of yes-no questions in Jianghuai Mandarin not only involves a PolP headed by an open-valued polarity variable [ Pol], but a QuP headed by a dedicated yes-no question particle must also be present. Furthermore, I discuss another structure where a yes-no question seems to be allowed, unconditional adverbial clauses, which have not attracted much attention in the literature on Mandarin syntax Unlike the traditional assumption, I show that there exist two distinct types of unconditional adverbial clauses in Mandarin: Headed antecedents and bare antecedents consistently differ from each other in both their internal and external syntax. Regarding the internal syntax, bare antecedents involve an impoverished structure: They are TPs without a left periphery; whereas headed antecedents involve a full-fledged CP-domain. I argue that only headed but not bare antecedents involve an embedded interrogative. In terms of the external syntax, bare antecedents are base generated at Spec douP within the consequent and then overtly move to their canonical pre-consequent position, hence they all fall under the category of central adverbial clauses. In contrast, the merger of headed antecedents is independent from dou, and hence they exhibit more flexibility in their attachment sites and varying degrees of integration with the consequent. It is argued that they can realize as any of the three types of adverbial clauses: central adverbial clauses, peripheral adverbial clauses, and overarching speech-act modifiers, each of which show distinct properties in their external syntax (and internal syntax). This provides cross-linguistic evidence for the three-way division in adverbial clauses recently proposed by Frey (2020) and Badan & Haegeman (2022). Neutral yes-no questions are typically answered by repeating the verb in the question (i.e. "verb echo answers" or VEA) in Mandarin, which is the third structure I investigate in this dissertation. Building on existing studies (Liu 2014, Simpson 2015, Holmberg 2016, Wei 2019, a.o.), I provide converging empirical evidence showing that VEAs must not only involve a base-generated verb or a VP, and there must be an underlying sentential structure. I show that Mandarin VEAs do not involve pro-drop and analyses involving pro-drop face two kinds of empirical challenges: Elements that cannot be pro-dropped are nevertheless omitted from VEAs; whereas elements that can be dropped still allow elements extracted from them to surface in VEAs. Meanwhile, I argue that a head movement approach cannot account for (i) variations in VEAs, especially various kinds of phrasal elements occurring in VEAs; and (ii) VEAs to embedded yes-no questions with matrix scope. I instead propose that Mandarin VEAs are derived through (remnant) PolP movement followed by TP ellipsis.