Formal Aspects Of Chinese Grammar

by Jie Xu

Overview

This book is a collection of seven articles published in the past decade by the author. These articles are concerned with various issues including possessor raising, null subject, null object, pied-piping in logical form, focus marker, question formation, and adverbial reflexive. Each article has made a contribution to its topic. More importantly, these seven articles, taken as a whole, also constitute a window through which readers may look at the issues from a formal syntactic perspective and get a sense as how works have been conducted in the framework concerned, how arguments have been constructed, and how justifications have been provided in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813202917
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/08/2017
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Preface v

Chapter 1 Possessor Raising in Chinese and Korean 1

Chapter 2 Two Types of Pre-Verbal Reflexives in Chinese 55

Chapter 3 The Positioning of Chinese Focus Marker SHI and Pied-Piping in Logical Form 64

Chapter 4 Two Types of Null Subject Languages 89

Chapter 5 Null Object and Its Syntactic Derivation 117

Chapter 6 The Interaction of Grammatical Features "Question" and "Focus" 140

Chapter 7 Focus-Marking in Chinese and Malay 170

References 183

Index 191