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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A first part responses to the minimalist question of how perfect language is by comparing a few languages and showing that the apparent imperfection actually comes from the diversity of their lexicons. Then address how syntax interacts with semantics in a minimalist way, presenting evidence from definiteness effects that suggests the necessity of adopting a dynamic view of syntax-semantics mapping, envisioned as cyclic and derivational. No date or institution is cited for the dissertation.
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.
Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective is a collection of
sixteen original papers by leading experts in Chinese syntax. The
papers focus on a broad range of topics, demonstrating how the
analysis of Chinese can inform our understanding of syntactic
phenomena in other languages, and how insights gained in the study
of other languages can in turn shed interesting new light on
patterns in Chinese. Each chapter compares a specific major
phenomenon in Chinese syntax with related patterns in at least one
other language from Asia, Europe, North America or Africa,
resulting in a series of fresh perspectives on Chinese and what the
study of Chinese can offer linguists working on other, genetically
unrelated languages.
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