Towards the unity of movement: implications from verb movement in Cantonese Page 1
Towards the unity of movement: implications from verb movement in Cantonese Tommy Tsz-Ming …

Title description Displacement (of linguistic expressions) is a ubiquitous phenomenon in
natural language. In the generative tradition, displacement is modelled in terms of …

This chapter has two major objectives. The first concerns the syntax and semantics of wh-
fronting constructions in Cantonese. Investigating the syntactic and semantic properties of …

In this paper, we investigate focus intervention effects in Mandarin multiple wh-questions,
showing that such effects arise only if a focus particle and its focus associate intervene …

Intervention effects (IEs) refer to the phenomenon where an interrogative wh-expression
cannot follow a quantifier or a focus expression. IEs are commonly found in wh-in-situ …

In this paper, some mysteries and asymmetries of the Chinese potential de construction are
investigated. It is shown that a morphosytnactic approach is conducive to accounting for …

This study proposes an approach which derives Chinese alternative questions by means of
feature percolation and LF movement. This approach is argued to fare better than a …

Licensing and Interpreting Wh-Elements In Situin Mandarin Chinese REN, Qianqian A Thesis
Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Page 1 Licensing and Interpreting Wh-Elements In Situin …