New PDF release: Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese: A Minimalist Account

By Victor Junnan Pan

ISBN-10: 3110487594

ISBN-13: 9783110487596

using resumptive pronouns is kind of effective in Mandarin chinese language; even though, their distribution has hardly been studied in a scientific means. This e-book not just supplies an intensive description of the final distribution of resumptive pronouns in several contexts but additionally deals a theoretical account within the framework of the Minimalist application. kinds of A'-dependencies, mediated by way of gaps and by means of resumptive pronouns, are derived by way of various minimalist mechanisms, similar to Agree, fit and circulation. those mechanisms basically practice at slim Syntax and don't uniformly obey locality constraints. Importantly, interpretative homes of an A'-bound aspect, comparable to reconstruction results, is barely relating to its inner constitution without reference to how the A'-chain involved is derived. From this angle, resumptivity is an solely syntactic-related phenomenon and is therefore now not topic to any interface situation. Adopting a comparative process, this research improves the overall knowing of resumptivity crosslinguistically.

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