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New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages
Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang
This book brings together some of the most prominent linguists working in the field of East and Southeast Asian syntax to create a special collection of papers which highlight new developments in the analysis of the syntax of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian languages. Generative syntactic theory has regularly been influenced by discoveries made in Asian languages, and the present volume connects a broad range of striking patterns found in Asian languages with Minimalist syntactic theory and provides arguments for fresh approaches to a variety of fundamental problems and puzzles within formal syntax. The volume has also been created as a tribute to Professor C.-T. James Huang, one of the most influential of generative linguists active in the study of Chinese and other Asian languages.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290] 2026. viii, 489 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 15 January 2026
Published online on 15 January 2026
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Frontis | pp. vii–viii
- IntroductionAndrew Simpson | pp. 1–5
- Displacement/Movement/Locality
- Non-conventional Merge to the right: Evidence from adjunct displacementHeejeong Ko | pp. 8–34
- A movement approach to “gapless” constructions in JapaneseToru Ishii | pp. 35–59
- Surprising constituents revisitedYuji Takano | pp. 60–79
- The notion of “subject” and CED under Symmetrizing SyntaxNaoki Fukui and Hiroki Narita | pp. 80–116
- Syntax-semantics interactions
- Pro-drop, E-type pronouns, and agreement with reference to the null subject in Chinese and JapaneseShigeru Miyagawa | pp. 118–157
- Argument ellipsis, weak heads, and labeling by CaseMamoru Saito | pp. 158–182
- Argument ellipsis and grammatical function mismatchesDaiko Takahashi | pp. 183–209
- Linking semantics and syntax: Quantifier symmetry and dou distributionJo-Wang Lin | pp. 210–229
- Revisiting the syntax and interpretation of Vietnamese đượcAndrew Simpson and Linh Pham | pp. 230–259
- Interrogatives
- On the inner-outer dichotomy of A-not-A questions: A minimalist-cartographic accountWei-Tien Dylan Tsai and Ching-Yu Helen Yang | pp. 262–280
- On the modifying negative WHAT in ChineseSze-Wing Tang | pp. 281–302
- On a reason Wh-adjunct in KoreanDuk-Ho An | pp. 303–320
- Case-related issues
- Bornean passives in comparative perspectiveMichael Yoshitaka Erlewine and Alexander D. Smith | pp. 322–347
- Against the agreement approach to Philippine-type voiceEdith Aldridge | pp. 348–377
- Morpho-syntactic typology
- Analyticity as an epiphenomenonLisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Rint Sybesma | pp. 380–404
- Nominal projections
- Complements in noun phrases?Yen-hui Audrey Li | pp. 406–435
- Putting three pieces of a puzzle into place: Classifiers–plurals–articles in VietnameseTrang Phan and Gennaro Chierchia | pp. 436–458
- Noun complements are not [not complements]John Whitman | pp. 459–486
- Index | pp. 487–489