Chapter 13
On the syntactic representation of Chinese you (有) in
“you + VP” construction
This paper aims at drawing the syntactic maps of
you(有 lit. have) in
“you + VP” construction in Chinese within the
cartographic framework (Rizzi
1997; Cinque
1999, and much subsequent work) and splitting IP on the
basis of Huang (1988).
More precisely, a syntax-semantic mismatch of you
is observed in the literature, namely, previous studies claim that
you can convey several semantic readings, for
instance, past tense, future tense, perfective, as well as
(emphatic) affirmative reading; its syntactic representation,
however, is put under the syntactic node of I/T (Huang 1988, etc.). This
paper first verifies the features on you and then offers a
cartographic account to this mismatch. The results show that
you only conveys the perfective feature and the
(emphatic) affirmative feature, and it is spelled out at the phrasal
lever under AffP. Besides, a You-Support Hypothesis
in Chinese is suggested.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Previous studies on “you + VP”
construction
- 3.A syntax-semantic mismatch of you
- 4.Verification of the features on you
- 5.A cartographic attempt: The licensing of you
- 5.1A synthetic viewpoint
- 5.2A syntactic analysis
- 6.Concluding remarks
-
Notes
-
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