Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Permissions
Introduction
Part I: Questions, Indefinites and quantification
Move wh in a language without wh-movement
LF, ECP, and non-vacuous quantification
Existential sentences in Chinese and (in)definiteness
The syntax of wh-in-situ
Modularity and Chinese A-not-A questions
Logical Form
Two types of donkey sentences
Syntax of the hell
Part II: anaphora and BINDING
A note on binding theory
On the distribution and reference of empty pronouns
Reconstruction and the structure of VP
Logophoricity, attitudes, and ziji at the interface
Part III: Lexical Structure and Events
On lexical structure and syntactic projection
Resultatives and unaccusatives
Notes
Bibliography
Index
