Parameter Preservation at the Syntax-PF Interface: The Ba Construction Revisited
| Autor: | Chih-hsiang Shu |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
060201 languages & linguistics
syntax-pf interface Linguistics and Language Syntax (programming languages) Computer science Interface (Java) symmetrical syntax hypothesis Sino-Tibetan languages PL1001-3208 Languages of Asia ba construction Chinese language and literature 06 humanities and the arts Language and Linguistics Linguistics optional movement 0602 languages and literature directionality parameters Contrastive linguistics |
| Zdroj: | Studies in Chinese Linguistics, Vol 39, Iss 1, Pp 29-66 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1017-1274 |
| Popis: | In this paper, I argue for an analysis that treats the ba construction in Chinese as a case of shape preservation-induced movement structure. Specifically, the robust preverbal adverbial and PP expressions and the mandatory ba-DP movement in ditransitive structures are both derived from a violable head directionality macroparameter under the Symmetrical Syntax Hypothesis, which allows directionality parameters to examine word order throughout the derivation. In addition to being able to capture the parallel syntactic properties of Scandinavian object shift, this account receives further empirical support from word order facts of Archaic Chinese and Bambara. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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