The Cartography of Chinese Syntax
The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 11
Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 August 2015
- ISBN 9780190210687
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 160x239x20 mm
- Weight 505 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. The chapters in this book map out the "topography" of a variety of constructions in Chinese, specifically information structure, wh-question formation, and peripheral functional elements. The syntactic structure of Chinese makes it an ideal language for this line of research, offering a window into the origin of heavily "scrambled" constructions often observed in other languages.
MoreLong description:
This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that is guided by the view that syntactic structures contain grammatical and functional information that is ideal for semantic interpretation - by studying the syntactic structures of a particular language, syntacticians can better understand the semantic issues at play in that language. The chapters in this book map out the "topography" of a variety of constructions in Chinese, specifically information structure, wh-question formation, and peripheral functional elements. The syntactic structure of Chinese makes it an ideal language for this line of research, because functional elements are often spread throughout sentences rather than clumped together as is usually dictated by language-specific morphology. Mapping Chinese syntactic structures therefore offers a window into the origin of heavily "scrambled" constructions often observed in other languages. The book includes a preface that will discusses the goal of cartography and explains how the collection contributes towards our understanding of this approach to syntax. The subsequent seven original articles all contain original syntactic data that is invaluable for future research in cartography, and the collection as a whole paints a broader picture of how the alignment between syntax and semantics works in a principled way.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1
A Tale of Two Peripheries: Evidence from Chinese Adverbials, Light Verbs, Applicatives and Object Fronting
Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
Chapter 2
The even-construction and the Low Periphery in Mandarin Chinese
Linda Badan & Francesca Del Gobbo
Chapter 3
On the Fine Structure of the Left Periphery: The positions of Topic and Focus in Cantonese
Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Chapter 4
Adjunct Wh-Words in Left Periphery
Sze-Wing Tang
Chapter 5
Locating Wh-Intervention Effects at CP
Barry Chung-Yu Yang
Chapter 6
The Left Peripheral Renjia and Layers of CP in Chinese
Chen-Sheng Luther Liu
Chapter 7
The Fine structure of Spatial PPs in Mandarin Chinese
Hsiao-Hung Iris Wu
Index
