Table of contents
Part I.The structure of lexical and functional projections
Finiteness, opacity and Chinese clausal architecture
Place and distance: Locative expressions in Mandarin and Cantonese
“Descriptive complements” are manner adverbials
SVCs in disguise: The so-called “directional verb compounds” in Mandarin
Chinese
Part II.Modal verb syntax
Modal movement licensed by focus
Negative modals and prohibitives in Taiwanese Southern Min
Part III.Syntax-semantics interactions
Skolemized topicality for indefinites and universal quantifier
mei-phrases in Chinese
Chinese comparatives: Commentary on clausal vs. phrasal analysis
Head dependency and degree words in Mandarin
Constraints on the
representation of anaphoric definiteness in Mandarin Chinese: A reassessment
Noncanonical arguments via the high applicative
Applied objects in Mandarin and the nature of selection
On the syntax of incompleteness: Evidence from the converbal construction in Cantonese
Part IV.The syntax and interpretation of particles
On the syntax of mirativity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese
On the mirative marker leh
4 in Taiwanese
Southern Min
Non-veridical kaN in Taiwanese Southern Min
Sentence-internal discourse particles in Mandarin Chinese
Part V.Acquisition of syntactic structures
V-gei vs. double object construction: The mental representation of the Mandarin V-gei
construction
Predicting the unpredictable: -le used in Chinese serial verb
constructions
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