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Overview"This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that is guided by the view that syntactic structures contain grammatical and functional information that is ideal for semantic interpretation - by studying the syntactic structures of a particular language, syntacticians can better understand the semantic issues at play in that language. The chapters in this book map out the ""topography"" of a variety of constructions in Chinese, specifically information structure, wh-question formation, and peripheral functional elements. The syntactic structure of Chinese makes it an ideal language for this line of research, because functional elements are often spread throughout sentences rather than clumped together as is usually dictated by language-specific morphology. Mapping Chinese syntactic structures therefore offers a window into the origin of heavily ""scrambled"" constructions often observed in other languages. The book includes a preface that will discusses the goal of cartography and explains how the collection contributes towards our understanding of this approach to syntax. The subsequent seven original articles all contain original syntactic data that is invaluable for future research in cartography, and the collection as a whole paints a broader picture of how the alignment between syntax and semantics works in a principled way." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University) , Professor of Linguistics Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) National Tsing Hua University National Tsing Hua University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.505kg ISBN: 9780190210687ISBN 10: 0190210680 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 20 August 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 A Tale of Two Peripheries: Evidence from Chinese Adverbials, Light Verbs, Applicatives and Object Fronting Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai Chapter 2 The even-construction and the Low Periphery in Mandarin Chinese Linda Badan & Francesca Del Gobbo Chapter 3 On the Fine Structure of the Left Periphery: The positions of Topic and Focus in Cantonese Candice Chi-Hang Cheung Chapter 4 Adjunct Wh-Words in Left Periphery Sze-Wing Tang Chapter 5 Locating Wh-Intervention Effects at CP Barry Chung-Yu Yang Chapter 6 The Left Peripheral Renjia and Layers of CP in Chinese Chen-Sheng Luther Liu Chapter 7 The Fine structure of Spatial PPs in Mandarin Chinese Hsiao-Hung Iris Wu IndexReviewsAuthor InformationDylan Tsai is a Professor of Linguistics at the National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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