Ting-Chi Wei
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ting-Chi Wei is involved.
Articles
2018 Fragment questions in Mandarin Chinese: Topic movement and pied-piping Language and Linguistics 19:2, pp. 266–305 | Article
This paper argues that fragment question (FQ) in Mandarin Chinese is derived from topic movement and TP deletion, contributing to the growing body of evidence that sentence fragments are syntactically full clauses (Merchant 2004). Structurally, an FQ consists of a topic-like constituent followed… read more
2016 Fragment answers in Mandarin Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3:1, pp. 100–131 | Article
The derivational differences of the fragment answers in Mandarin Chinese lie in whether a fragment moves or not. Under the movement and ellipsis analysis (Merchant 2004), fragment answer to wh-question moves to SpecFocP, followed by TP ellipsis. In contrast, fragment answer to yes-no question or… read more