Titlebook: Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese; Yen-Hui Audrey Li Book 1990 Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990 Chinese.English.Index.grammar.obje

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Yen-Hui Audrey Liat the very vagueness of his metaphysical apparatus — the Angels, unrequited lovers, young dead and animals among others (why not the insane or the old dead?, one is tempted to ask), all of whom are strangely interchangeable — serves to validate his expression of his confusion. When he writes in the

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Dimensions of the Case Module,. Theoretically, it provides support for the status of Case in Universal Grammar, allows us to capture the word order facts of Chinese without resorting to a complex set of phrase structure rules, and offers an account of the surface deviations from word order universals. With respect to Chinese gra

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Multiple Complementation,acency conditions. The directionality and adjacency requirements on Case assigment capture a wide range of facts concerning word order in Chinese. For example, the ungrammaticality of [V NP duration/frequency] is accounted for by the claim that the V cannot assign Case to both the NP and the duratio

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Conclusion,ammarians. My thesis was to show that, despite the apparently insurmountable problem of reaching descriptive adequacy and justified doubt concerning the appropriateness of imposing an abstract notion (the notion of abstract Case) onto a language without morphological indication, a Case account of co

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Dimensions of the Case Module,(see, for example, Chomsky 1981, p. 52). The question, then, is whether Chinese distinguishes finite from infinitival clauses with respect to Case assignment to the subject position, even though there is no clear morphological distinction. If there is such a distinction, what would the nominative Ca