Prelim pages

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. The structure of lexical and functional projections
5. Finiteness, opacity, and Chinese clausal architecture 17
6. Place and distance 77
7. “Descriptive complements” are manner adverbials 111
8. SVCs in disguise 133
9. Part II. Modal verb syntax
10. Modal movement licensed by focus 165
11. Negative modals and prohibitives in Taiwanese Southern Min 193
12. Part III. Syntax-semantics interactions
13. Skolemized topicality for indefinites and universal quantifier mei -phrases in Chinese 219
14. Chinese comparatives 249
15. Head dependency and degree words in Mandarin 293
16. Constraints on the representation of anaphoric definiteness in Mandarin Chinese 301
17. Noncanonical arguments via the high applicative 331
18. Applied objects in Mandarin and the nature of selection 357
19. On the syntax of incompleteness 395
20. Part IV. The syntax and interpretation of particles
21. On the syntax of mirativity 431
22. On the mirative marker leh 4 in Taiwanese Southern Min 445
23. Non-veridical kaN in Taiwanese Southern Min 479
24. Sentence-internal discourse particles in Mandarin Chinese 509
25. Part V. Acquisition of syntactic structures
26. V- gei vs. double object construction 539
27. Predicting the unpredictable 555
28. Index 575