Between Syntax and Semantics

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

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• Authors: C. T. James Huang, C.T. James Huang, C.t. James (Harvard University Huang, C.t.james Huang, HUANG C T JAMES
• Assisted by: Carlos Otero (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.2009
• EAN: 9780415990912
• ISBN: 978-0-415-99091-2
• No. of pages: 478
• Series: Routledge Leading Linguists; Routledge Leading Linguists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology