Author : Victor Junnan Pan
Release : 2019-01-15
Genre : Foreign Language Study
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 949/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese by : Victor Junnan Pan
Download or read book Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese written by Victor Junnan Pan. This book was released on 2019-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.