Between syntax and semantics

• Main Author: Huang, Cheng-Teh James.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.
• Series: Routledge leading linguists ; 15.
• Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.; Semantics.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Syntax. > Linguistics; Electronic books.
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Thisïndispensable volume contains articles that represent the best ofḦuang'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.ÈÈ....

Table of Contents:

• 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 : two types of dependencies
• Anaphora and binding
• A note on binding theory
• On the distribution and reference of empty pronouns
• Reconstruction and the structure of VP : some theoretical consequences
• Logophoricity, attitudes, and ziji at the interface
• Lexical structure and events
• On lexical structure and syntactic projection
• Resultatives and unaccusatives : a parametric view.