Chinese Syntax in a Cross Linguistic Perspective 1st Edition by Wei Tien Dylan Tsai, Audrey Li, Andrew Simpson ISBN 0199945675 9780199945672

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ISBN 10: 0199945675

ISBN 13: 9780199945672

Author: Wei Tien Dylan Tsai, Audrey Li, Andrew Simpson

Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective is a collection of sixteen original papers by leading experts in Chinese syntax. The papers focus on a broad range of topics, demonstrating how the analysis of Chinese can inform our understanding of syntactic phenomena in other languages, and how insights gained in the study of other languages can in turn shed interesting new light on patterns in Chinese. Each chapter compares a specific major phenomenon in Chinese syntax with related patterns in at least one other language from Asia, Europe, North America or Africa, resulting in a series of fresh perspectives on Chinese and what the study of Chinese can offer linguists working on other, genetically unrelated languages. The volume is divided into three thematic sections, on the nominal domain, the predicate domain, and the C-domain. In addition to chapters on synchronic, adult syntax, the book includes chapters on Chinese diachronic syntax in a comparative perspective and the acquisition of syntax in Chinese, in comparison with that of other languages. The collection is a tribute to Professor C.-T. James Huang’s lifelong work on the syntax of Chinese and his attempts to demonstrate how the comparative analysis of Chinese reveals important properties of Universal Grammar. With its broad, cross-linguistic focus and its detailed, new studies of Chinese, this book is essential reading for researchers of all language backgrounds in modern generative syntax.

Table of contents:

1. On Syntactic Analyticity and Parametric Theory
Part One THE NOMINAL DOMAIN
2. A Parametric Analysis of Nominal Arguments in Classifier Languages
3. Appositives in Mandarin Chinese and Cross-Linguistically
4. Restricting Non-restrictive Relatives in Mandarin Chinese
5. The same Difference: Comparative Syntax-Semantics of English same and Chinese tong/xiang-tong
6. How Universal is the Mass/Count Distinction? Three Grammars of Counting
Part Two THE PREDICATE DOMAIN
7. Analysis versus Synthesis: Objects
8. Transitive Psych-Predicates
9. Light-Verb Syntax Between English and Classical Chinese
10. Selection and Incorporation in Complex Predicate Formation
11. Agents in Mandarin and Igbo Resultatives
12. Verbal Answers to Yes/No Questions, Focus, and Ellipsis
13. On the Internal Structure of Comparative Constructions: From Chinese and Japanese to English
14. Root Infinitive Analogues in Chinese and Japanese and the Emergence of Full Syntactic Structure
Part Three THE C-DOMAIN
15. Wh-adjuncts, Left Periphery, and Wh-in-situ
16. Cartographic Syntax of Pragmatic Projections

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