Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese

By Victor Junnan Pan

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032401680
• ISBN13: 9781032401683
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"