Interfaces in Grammar

Editors

Jianhua Hu

| Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Haihua Pan

| The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027202482 | EUR 105.00 | USD 158.00

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ISBN 9789027262684 | EUR 105.00 | USD 158.00

This volume is an important contribution to the theoretical and empirical study of the interactions of grammatical components in Chinese and other languages. With contributions by Edward L. Keenan, Henk van Riemsdijk, Alain Rouveret, and scholars in Chinese Linguistics, this volume investigates the common structural properties that may be considered as possible candidates for UG. It addresses syntactic and semantic issues such as anaphora universals over non-isomorphic languages, the role that the forces of attraction and repulsion play in the grammar of natural languages, computational and semantic aspects of resumption, the dichotomy between inner and outer reflexive adverbials, system repairing strategies at interfaces, the v-copy construction in Chinese, the scope of disjunction, interactions between focus, negation and event quantification, null object constructions and VP-Ellipsis, child language acquisition of nominal structure, word order and referentiality as well as second language acquisition of interface properties in Chinese double NP constructions. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of syntax, semantics, theoretical linguistics, and language acquisition, as well as scholars in Chinese linguistics.

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 15] 2019. vi, 371 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.15

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction Jianhua Hu and Haihua Pan	1–7
Chapter 2. Unifying UG and language variation Edward L. Keenan	9–24
Chapter 3. Elements of syntax: Repulsion and attraction Henk van Riemsdijk	25–47
Chapter 4. Computational and semantic aspects of resumption Alain Rouveret	49–100
Chapter 5. Causality, comitativity, contrastivity, and selfhood: A view from the left periphery and the vP periphery Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai	101–132
Chapter 6. System repairing strategy at interface: Wh-in-situ in Mandarin Chinese Victor Junnan Pan	133–166
Chapter 7. The V-copy construction in Mandarin: A case temporarily reopened Huba Bartos	167–205
Chapter 8. The syntax of either and disjunction Paul Law	207–244
Chapter 9. Focus, negation and event quantification in Chinese: How focus helps shape negation in natural language Peppina Po-lun Lee	245–282
Chapter 10. Null object constructions, VP-ellipsis, and sentence interpretation Haihua Pan	283–299
Chapter 11. The acquisition of nominal structure, word order and referentiality in Chinese: Corpus and experimental findings on the numeral phrase Thomas Hun-Tak Lee and Zhuang Wu	301–340
Chapter 12. Syntax/semantics interface and interpretation of Chinese NP₁NP₂V construction by Japanese speakers Li Zeng and Dongfan Hua	341–362
Language index	363
Subject index	365–371

“[T]he range of syntactic, semantic, and interface properties explored with ample crosslinguistic evidence makes for a compelling series of theoretically neat packages that undoubtedly will serve to stimulate ideas for future research. [...] This is certainly a breath of fresh air for those who are worried about English-centered research in Generative and Minimalist traditions.”

Sean T Stalley, University of South Alabama, on Linguist List 31.1277 (6 April 2020)

Subjects

Linguistics

Generative linguistics

Syntax

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009060 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2018059574 | Marc record