Andrew Simpson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andrew Simpson is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1382-3485
Titles
New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang
Edited by Andrew Simpson
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. read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290] 2026. viii, 489 pp.
New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li
Edited by Andrew Simpson
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… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] 2022. vi, 577 pp.
Wh-Movement and the Theory of Feature-Checking
Andrew Simpson
Wh-movement and the theory of feature-checking argues that cross-linguistic variation in wh-constructions reduces to the availability of different lexical instantiations of a +wh C0 both across languages and within a single language, and the way in which such lexical elements are syntactically… read more[Not in series, 98] 2000. xii, 244 pp.
2026 Introduction New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 1–5 | Chapter
2026 Revisiting the syntax and interpretation of Vietnamese được New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 230–259 | Chapter
The syntactic analysis of the element được in Vietnamese presents an interesting puzzle due to được’s odd position and varied contribution to interpretation. In many occurrences, được has the interpretation of a modal verb, but is regularly positioned following the main verb, rather than… read more
2025 Specificity contrasts in Lalo Yi: Structure and interpretation Studies in Language 49:1, pp. 224–241 | Article
Lalo Yi (Tibeto-Burman; China) makes systematic distinctions in the encoding of specificity with numerically-quantified nominals. Whereas specific indefinite NPs involve the presence of an article nikhe in an NP-internal position [Noun nikhe Numeral Classifier], non-specific… read more
2022 Introduction New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
2022 Constraints on the representation of anaphoric definiteness in Mandarin Chinese: A reassessment New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 301–330 | Chapter
There is increasing evidence that languages may use distinct forms to encode definiteness in instances of anaphoric and non-anaphoric definiteness, for example, distinct determiners, or bare classifier vs. bare noun patterns. This chapter considers a recent, prominent claim in Jenks (2018) that… read more
2019 Chapter 13. Effects of grammatical roles and parallelism on referential form production in Vietnamese spoken and written narratives Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics, Duffield, Nigel, Trang Phan and Tue Trinh (eds.), pp. 275–300 | Chapter
This study investigates the use of null and overt pronouns and noun phrases in Vietnamese spoken and written narratives, with a focus on referents’ grammatical roles and grammatical parallelism. Looking at Vietnamese allows us to address questions left open in prior work regarding the effects of… read more
2011 Bare classifiers and definiteness: A cross-linguistic investigation Studies in Language 35:1, pp. 168–193 | Article
In some (numeral) classifier languages, a classifier may occur “bare” (i.e. with a noun but without a numeral) and the nominal expression receives a definite interpretation. On the basis of evidence from Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, Cheng and Sybesma (1999) hypothesize that classifier languages… read more
2008 The grammaticalization of clausal nominalizers in Burmese Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives, López-Couso, María José and Elena Seoane (eds.), pp. 265–288 | Article
This paper is concerned with the grammaticalization of clausal nominalizers in two different but closely-related forms of Burmese, Colloquial Burmese and Literary Burmese. A contrastive overview of the morphosyntactic properties of the nominalizersthii and mii of Literary Burmese and their… read more
2007 Argument prominence and the nature of superiority violations Argument Structure, Reuland, Eric J., Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Giorgos Spathas (eds.), pp. 175–211 | Article
This paper studies the mapping of argument structure into higher parts of the clause and examines the relation of argument structure to multiple wh-structuresand Superiority phenomena. Superiority effects are commonly assumed to arise when wh -movement triggered by the feature-checking requirements… read more
2004 The EPP, fossilized movement and reanalysis Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar, Fuß, Eric and Carola Trips (eds.), pp. 161–189 | Chapter
2001 On Covert Movement and LF The Minimalist Parameter: Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997, Alexandrova, Galina M. and Olga Arnaudova (eds.), pp. 191–204 | Article