In:New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang
Edited by Andrew Simpson
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 290] 2026
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 15 January 2026
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.290.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.290.toc
Table of contents
Introduction1
Andrew Simpson
Displacement/Movement/Locality
Non-conventional Merge to the right: Evidence from adjunct displacement8
Heejeong Ko
A movement approach to “gapless” constructions in Japanese35
Toru Ishii
Surprising constituents revisited60
Yuji Takano
The notion of “subject” and CED under Symmetrizing Syntax80
Naoki Fukui
Hiroki Narita
Syntax-semantics interactions
Pro-drop, E-type pronouns, and agreement with reference to the null subject in Chinese and Japanese118
Shigeru Miyagawa
Argument ellipsis, weak heads, and labeling by Case158
Mamoru Saito
Argument ellipsis and grammatical function mismatches183
Daiko Takahashi
Linking semantics and syntax: Quantifier symmetry and dou distribution210
Jo-Wang Lin
Revisiting the syntax and interpretation of Vietnamese được230
Andrew Simpson
Linh Pham
Interrogatives
On the inner-outer dichotomy of A-not-A questions: A minimalist-cartographic account262
Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
Ching-Yu Helen Yang
On the modifying negative WHAT in Chinese281
Sze-Wing Tang
On a reason Wh-adjunct in Korean303
Duk-Ho An
Case-related issues
Bornean passives in comparative perspective322
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
Alexander D. Smith
Against the agreement approach to Philippine-type voice348
Edith Aldridge
Morpho-syntactic typology
Analyticity as an epiphenomenon380
Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng
Rint Sybesma
Nominal projections
Complements in noun phrases?406
Yen-hui Audrey Li
Putting three pieces of a puzzle into place: Classifiers–plurals–articles in Vietnamese436
Trang Phan
Gennaro Chierchia
Noun complements are not [not complements]459
John Whitman
Index
