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Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Yen-Hui Audrey Li

    1. Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 19)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Universal Grammar and Word Order

    • Yen-Hui Audrey Li
    Pages 1-15

  3. Dimensions of the Case Module

    • Yen-Hui Audrey Li
    Pages 16-40

  4. Single Complementation

    • Yen-Hui Audrey Li
    Pages 41-66

  5. Multiple Complementation

    • Yen-Hui Audrey Li
    Pages 67-116

  6. Lexical and Categorial Properties of Case

    • Yen-Hui Audrey Li
    Pages 117-152

  7. Passive, BA, and Topic Constructions

    • Yen-Hui Audrey Li
    Pages 153-203

  8. Conclusion

    • Yen-Hui Audrey Li
    Pages 204-208

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 209-224
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About this book

Recent developments in generative grammar have been very stimulating. The current theory defines a small set of principles that apply to all human languages. Efforts have been made to demonstrate the adequacy of this theory for a wide range of languages. We thus see an interesting interface of theory and empirical data: the study of natural languages contributes to defining the properties of Universal Grammar and the predictions of the theory help in uncovering generalizations regarding natural languages. This book aims to add to this exciting development by showing how the analysis of Mandarin Chinese constituent structures helps to define Case Theory and how interesting generalizations concerning Chinese grammar are uncovered through verification of the theoretical predictions. Starting from the inadequacy of work by Koopman, Li, and Travis on the effect of Case directionality on word order, the book shows that a detailed study of Chinese constituent structures allows us to reduce the phrase structure component to a minimal statement concerning the position of the head in a given phrase. It argues that in a given language the constituent structures can be adequately captured by the interaction of Case Theory, Theta Theory, Government Theory, and X Theory. Long­ standing controversies concerning Chinese basic word order are resolved by showing that underlying word order generalizations can differ from surface word order generalizations.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

    Yen-Hui Audrey Li

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese

  • Authors: Yen-Hui Audrey Li

  • Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1898-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0500-2Published: 28 February 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7347-9Published: 22 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1898-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4670

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 224

  • Topics: Syntax, Theoretical Linguistics, Chinese

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