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In:New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li
Edited by Andrew Simpson
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 272] 2022
► pp. v–vi

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Table of contents

Introduction

Andrew Simpson

Part I.The structure of lexical and functional projections

Finiteness, opacity and Chinese clausal architecture

C. -T. James Huang

Place and distance: Locative expressions in Mandarin and Cantonese

Lisa Cheng

Rint Sybesma

“Descriptive complements” are manner adverbials

Thomas Ernst

SVCs in disguise: The so-called “directional verb compounds” in Mandarin Chinese

Waltraud Paul

Part II.Modal verb syntax

Modal movement licensed by focus

Tommy Tsz Ming Lee

Kai Fa Yip

Negative modals and prohibitives in Taiwanese Southern Min

Roger Liao

Iris Wang

Part III.Syntax-semantics interactions

Skolemized topicality for indefinites and universal quantifier mei-phrases in Chinese

Shizhe Huang

Chinese comparatives: Commentary on clausal vs. phrasal analysis

Jo-Wang Lin

Head dependency and degree words in Mandarin

Niina Zhang

Constraints on the representation of anaphoric definiteness in Mandarin Chinese: A reassessment

Andrew Simpson

Zoe Wu

Noncanonical arguments via the high applicative

Yafei Li

Applied objects in Mandarin and the nature of selection

Richard Larson

Chong Zhang

On the syntax of incompleteness: Evidence from the converbal construction in Cantonese

Sze-Wing Tang

Part IV.The syntax and interpretation of particles

On the syntax of mirativity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese

Dylan Tsai

Ching-Yu Helen Yang

On the mirative marker leh⁴ in Taiwanese Southern Min

Miao-Ling Hsieh

Non-veridical kaN in Taiwanese Southern Min

Shu-Ing Shyu

Liók-san N̂g

Sentence-internal discourse particles in Mandarin Chinese

Haley Wei Wei

Part V.Acquisition of syntactic structures

V-gei vs. double object construction: The mental representation of the Mandarin V-gei construction

Yi-Hsien Liu

Heeju Hwang

Predicting the unpredictable: -le used in Chinese serial verb constructions

Yan Li