Overview
Architecture of the 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.
- | Author: Victor Junnan Pan
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Jan 30, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 228 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1138068187
- | ISBN-13: 9781138068186
