C T James Huang

Between Syntax and Semantics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. It includes three general topics: (a) questions, indefinites and quantification, (b) anaphora, (c) lexical structure and the syntax of events.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 486
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780415852722
• ISBN-10: 0415852722
• Artikelnr.: 37086525

Autorenporträt

C.-T. James Huang, a Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University, is the preeminent specialist on the syntax and semantics of Chinese.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Permissions
Introduction
Part I: Questions, Indefinites and quantification
1. Move wh in a language without wh-movement
2. LF, ECP, and non-vacuous quantification
3. Existential sentences in Chinese and (in)definiteness
4. The syntax of wh-in-situ
5. Modularity and Chinese A-not-A questions
6. Logical Form
7. Two types of donkey sentences
8. Syntax of the hell
Part II: anaphora and BINDING
9. A note on binding theory
10. On the distribution and reference of empty pronouns
11. Reconstruction and the structure of VP
12. Logophoricity, attitudes, and ziji at the interface
Part III: Lexical Structure and Events
13. On lexical structure and syntactic projection
14. Resultatives and unaccusatives
Notes
Bibliography
Index