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.
