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Prominence and Locality in Grammar - The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Questions and Reflexives (Hardcover)
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Prominence and Locality in Grammar - The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Questions and Reflexives (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics
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This book challenges the current consensus on the analysis of
wh-questions and reflexives from the perspective of the
syntax-semantics interface. An integrated approach incorporating
analyses of the interaction between different levels of linguistic
knowledge is proposed. It argues that the derivation and
interpretation of wh-questions and reflexives are not purely
syntactic in nature but are regulated by principles operating at
the syntax-semantics interface. Two general principles underlying
our knowledge of language and cognition are proposed in this work.
One is the Principle of Locality, and the other is the Principle of
Prominence. It shows that although wh-quantification and
reflexivization belong to two different domains of study in
generative grammar, their derivation and interpretation are
basically constrained by the complex interaction between prominence
and locality in grammar. The first part of the book discusses how
wh-questions are formed and interpreted in Chinese and English and
shows that the formation and interpretation of wh-questions are
constrained by the interaction between prominence and locality. It
is shown that in wh-interpretation prominence is used to define the
set generators so as to licence other wh-words in the pair-list
reading in multiple wh-questions. It also discusses wh-island
effects in English and Chinese, and unlike previous claims made in
the literature (cf. Huang 1982a, 1982b), it argues that the
so-called wh-island effects in English are also observed in
Chinese. The second part of the book investigates the role that
prominence and locality play in reflexive binding. It is shown that
in reflexive binding, the binding domain of the reflexive is
defined by prominence. It proposes a unified account for both the
noncontrastive compound reflexive and the bare reflexive in Chinese
and shows that they are constrained by the same reflexive binding
condition proposed in this work, though they employ different
definitions of the most prominent NPs to determine their binding
domains. Prominence and Locality in Grammar: The Syntax and
Semantics of Wh-Quesitons and Reflexives is an important
theoretical contribution to the syntax-semantics interface studies
and can serve as a valuable text for graduate students and scholars
in the field of Chinese, linguistics, and cognitive science.
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