Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese
Subtitle: Cartography and Minimalism
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781138068186
Subjects: Chinese language, grammar
Description: "The Architecture of 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"--