1st Edition

Between Syntax and Semantics

By C.T. James Huang Copyright 2010
    486 Pages
    by Routledge

    486 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Introduction

    Part I: Questions, Indefinites, and Quantification

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


    Part II: The syntax, semantics and pragmatics of anaphora

    8.     Logophoricity, attitudes, and ziji at the interface 9.      Distributivity and reflexivity

    Part III: Lexical Structure, Events and Syntax

    10.  Lexical structure and syntactic projection 11.    Chinese passives in comparative perspective

    Biography

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