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New 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 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.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] 2022. vi, 577 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 31 March 2022
Published online on 31 March 2022
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- IntroductionAndrew Simpson | pp. 1–14
- Part I. The structure of lexical and functional projections
- Finiteness, opacity, and Chinese clausal architectureC.-T. James Huang | pp. 17–76
- Place and distance: Locative expressions in Mandarin and CantoneseLisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Rint Sybesma | pp. 77–110
- “Descriptive complements” are manner adverbialsThomas Ernst | pp. 111–132
- SVCs in disguise: The so-called “directional verb compounds” in Mandarin ChineseWaltraud Paul | pp. 133–162
- Part II. Modal verb syntax
- Modal movement licensed by focusKa-Fai Yip and Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee | pp. 165–192
- Negative modals and prohibitives in Taiwanese Southern MinWei-wen Roger Liao and Yuyun Iris Wang | pp. 193–216
- Part III. Syntax-semantics interactions
- Skolemized topicality for indefinites and universal quantifier mei-phrases in ChineseShi-Zhe Huang | pp. 219–248
- Chinese comparatives: Commentary on clausal vs. phrasal analysesJo-Wang Lin | pp. 249–292
- Head dependency and degree words in MandarinNiina Ning Zhang | pp. 293–300
- Constraints on the representation of anaphoric definiteness in Mandarin Chinese: A reassessmentAndrew Simpson and Zoe Wu | pp. 301–330
- Noncanonical arguments via the high applicativeYafei Li | pp. 331–356
- Applied objects in Mandarin and the nature of selectionRichard K. Larson and Chong Zhang | pp. 357–394
- On the syntax of incompleteness: Evidence from the converbal construction in CantoneseSze-Wing Tang | pp. 395–428
- Part IV. The syntax and interpretation of particles
- On the syntax of mirativity: Evidence from Mandarin ChineseWei-Tien Dylan Tsai and Ching-Yu Helen Yang | pp. 431–444
- On the mirative marker leh4 in Taiwanese Southern MinMiao-Ling Hsieh | pp. 445–478
- Non-veridical kaN in Taiwanese Southern MinShu-ing Shyu and Lio̍k-san N̂g | pp. 479–508
- Sentence-internal discourse particles in Mandarin ChineseWei Wei | pp. 509–536
- Part V. Acquisition of syntactic structures
- V-gei vs. double object construction: The mental representation of the Mandarin V-gei constructionYi-Hsien Liu and Heeju Hwang | pp. 539–554
- Predicting the unpredictable: ‑le used in Chinese serial verb constructionsYan Li | pp. 555–574
- Index | pp. 575–577