Description
| Product ID: | 9781032401683 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics |
| Title: | Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese |
| Subtitle: | Cartography and Minimalism |
| Authors: | Author: Victor Pan |
| Page Count: | 242 |
| Subjects: | Grammar, syntax and morphology, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Chinese |
| Description: | This is the first monograph to study sentence final particles in Chinese from a cartographic perspective, and the first study trying to account for the derivation of A'-dependencies in Mandarin Chinese from a minimalist perspective. Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese offers a comprehensive survey on the fine structure of the sentence peripheral domain in Mandarin Chinese from a cartographic perspective. Different functional projections hosting sentence-final particles, implicit operators and other informational components are hierarchically ordered according to the "Subjectivity Scale Constraint" functioning at syntax-discourse interface. Three questions will be essentially addressed: What is the order? How to determine such an order? Why such an order? This research not only gives a thorough examination of the peripheral elements in Chinese but also improves the general understanding of the ordering issue in the left-periphery crosslinguistically. This book is aimed at scholars interested in Chinese syntax or generative syntax. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-29 |
