The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and by Yicheng Wu

By Yicheng Wu

The Interfaces of chinese language Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics offers an in-depth exploration of numerous interface phenomena in chinese language, a non-inflectional language, the place to a wide quantity observe order constrains its interpretation and defines its grammatical capabilities.

Under the Dynamic Syntax method, which takes the incremental left-to-right processing of linguistic kinds to be a basic a part of characterizing the relation among syntactic constitution and semantic interpretation, a simple clarification is equipped. The research good points distinctive research of a variety of key grammatical structures akin to subject, passive, copular and cleft, the place earlier analyses have been sought in natural syntactic, semantic or pragmatic phrases.

Clear and easy all through, The Interfaces of chinese language Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics will be of curiosity to graduate scholars and students of chinese language, linguistics and cognitive technological know-how.

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B. wo jiao le sanshi nian zhongwen. 1SG teach PERF thirty year Chinese ‘I have taught Chinese for thirty years’. 8b, Tang follows Larson (1988) and proposes that direct objects are projected in the specifier position of VP, and the verb is moved to a higher functional head. 9. 8b is derived. 8a, Tang, following Larson’s (1988) idea that oblique expressions may be base-generated as the complement of V, proposes that duration phrases can also be projected under the minimal V’ as the complement of V.

10╇ Introduction ? Ty (Y ), ◊ ⇒ ? 11╇ Tree growth In what follows, I€shall only introduce those transition rules which are of direct relevance to the present study, but shall not discuss them in detail nor present a lot of examples, since applications of these rules will be demonstrated in a step-by-step way in the analyses throughout the subsequent chapters. Rules concerning the construction of trees will be introduced before those concerning the completion of trees. 1 Introduction and prediction A rule called Introduction licenses additional requirements to some node to the effect that one initial goal can be divided into two subgoals to require the tree to grow, viz.

1440). 7 appear to support the claim that the underlying motivation for the expression of arguments is pragmatic at the root. The dynamics of verbal underspecification in Chineseâ•… 45 a. Tigers only kill at night. b. Pat gave and gave, but Chris just took and took. c. The chef-in-training chopped and diced all afternoon. d. “She could steal but she could not rob” (from the Beatles song “She Came in through the Bathroom Window”). 6 a. €. have been unable to pray Mrs. Smith’s two little boys home again.

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