Interfaces in Grammar

✍ Scribed by Jianhua Hu, Haihua Pan

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 379
• Series: Language Faculty and Beyond, 15
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction / Jianhua Hu and Haihua Pan --
   2. Unifying UG and language variation / Edward L. Keenan --
   3. Elements of syntax: Repulsion and attraction / Henk van Riemsdijk --
   4. Computational and semantic aspects of resumption / Alain Rouveret --
   5. Causality, comitativity, contrastivity, and selfhood: A view from the left periphery and the vP periphery / Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai --
   6. System repairing strategy at interface: Wh-in-situ in Mandarin Chinese / Victor Junnan Pan --
   7. The V-copy construction in Mandarin: A case temporarily reported / Huba Bartos --
   8. The syntax of either and disjunction / Paul Law --
   9. Focus, negation and event quantification in Chinese: How focus helps shape negation in natural language / Peppina Po-lun Lee --
   10. Null object constructions, VP-ellipsis, and sentence interpretation / Haihua Pan --
   11. The acquisition of nominal structure, word order and referentiality in Chinese: Corpus and experimental findings on the numeral phrase / Thomas Hun-tak Lee and Zhuang Wu --
   12. Syntax/semantics interface and interpretation of Chinese NP1NP2V construction by Japanese speakers / Li Zeng and Dongfan Hua --
   Index.

✦ Subjects

Grammar, Comparative and general;Chinese language -- Grammar, Comparative;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax