Between Syntax and Semantics

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-415-99091-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 486 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1060 g

Reihe: Routledge Leading Linguists

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huang, C. T. James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Permissions

Introduction

Part I: Questions, Indefinites and quantification

- Move wh in a language without wh-movement

- LF, ECP, and non-vacuous quantification

- Existential sentences in Chinese and (in)definiteness

- The syntax of wh-in-situ

- Modularity and Chinese A-not-A questions

- Logical Form

- Two types of donkey sentences

- Syntax of the hell



Part II: anaphora and BINDING

- A note on binding theory

- On the distribution and reference of empty pronouns

- Reconstruction and the structure of VP

- Logophoricity, attitudes, and ziji at the interface



Part III: Lexical Structure and Events

- On lexical structure and syntactic projection

- Resultatives and unaccusatives

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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