Between Syntax and Semantics
(Englisch)
C.T. James Huang (Harvard University, USA)

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

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.

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Introduction

Part I: Questions, Indefinites and quantification

1. Move wh in a language without wh-movement
2. LF, ECP, and non-vacuous quantification
3. Existential sentences in Chinese and (in)definiteness
4. The syntax of wh-in-situ
5. Modularity and Chinese A-not-A questions
6. Logical Form
7. Two types of donkey sentences
8. Syntax of the hell

Part II: anaphora and BINDING

9. A note on binding theory
10. On the distribution and reference of empty pronouns
11. Reconstruction and the structure of VP
12. Logophoricity, attitudes, and ziji at the interface

Part III: Lexical Structure and Events

13. On lexical structure and syntactic projection
14. Resultatives and unaccusatives

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über den Autor

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Introduction

Part I: Questions, Indefinites and quantification

1. Move wh in a language without wh-movement
2. LF, ECP, and non-vacuous quantification
3. Existential sentences in Chinese and (in)definiteness
4. The syntax of wh-in-situ
5. Modularity and Chinese A-not-A questions
6. Logical Form
7. Two types of donkey sentences
8. Syntax of the hell

Part II: anaphora and BINDING

9. A note on binding theory
10. On the distribution and reference of empty pronouns
11. Reconstruction and the structure of VP
12. Logophoricity, attitudes, and ziji at the interface

Part III: Lexical Structure and Events

13. On lexical structure and syntactic projection
14. Resultatives and unaccusatives

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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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.