Between Syntax and Semantics

by Huang; C T James

• ISBN13: 9780415990912
• ISBN10: 0415990912
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Permissions	p. vii
Introduction
Questions, Indefinites, and Quantification	p. 1
Move WH in a Language without Wh-Movement	p. 11
LF, ECP, and Non-Vacuous Quantification	p. 49
Existential Sentences in Chinese and (In)definiteness	p. 63
The Syntax of Wh-in-Situ	p. 86
Modularity and Chinese A-not-A Questions	p. 106
Logical Form	p. 131
Two Types of Donkey Sentences	p. 174
Syntax of the Hell: Two Types of Dependencies	p. 207
Anaphora and Binding
A Note on the Binding Theory	p. 225
On the Distribution and Reference of Empty Pronouns	p. 232
Reconstruction and the Structure of VP: Some Theoretical Consequences	p. 271
Logophoricity, Attitudes, and ziji at the Interface	p. 300
Lexical Structure and Events
On Lexical Structure and Syntactic Projection	p. 347
Resultatives and Unaccusatives: A Parametric View	p. 377
Notes	p. 405
Bibliography	p. 455
Author Index	p. 471
Subject Index	p. 475
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