Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography
A crosslinguistic perspective
Editors
This book illustrates recent developments in cartographic studies, seen from a comparative perspective. The different chapters explore various aspects of theoretical and descriptive syntax, bearing on such topics as selection, causativity, binding, light verb constructions, the structure of the high and low peripheral zones. Syntactic issues in the study of dialects and ancient languages are also addressed. The languages investigated include French, Hebrew, Standard Dutch and the Ghent dialect, Etruscan, Japanese, English, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and the Teochew dialect. The intended readers of this book include researchers and students working on natural language syntax, the interface between syntax and semantics/pragmatics, and comparative and typological linguistics, as well as scholars interested in particular languages such as East Asian and Romance languages.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 267] 2021. vi, 328 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction: On the comparative basis of cartographic studiesLuigi Rizzi and Fuzhen Si | pp. 1–12
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Section I. Theoretical and descriptive issues in syntactic cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective
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Chapter 2. Cartography and selection in subjunctives and interrogativesUr Shlonsky | pp. 15–26
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Chapter 3. The syntax and information-structural semantics of negative inversion in English and their implications for the theory of focusMasatoshi Honda | pp. 27–52
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Chapter 4. Invariant die and adverbial resumption in the Ghent dialectKaren De Clercq and Liliane Haegeman | pp. 53–110
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Chapter 5. Uncovering the left periphery of Etruscan: Some theoretical insightsGiuseppe Samo and Massimiliano Canuti | pp. 111–126
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Chapter 6. Subject drop in how come questions in EnglishYoshio Endo | pp. 127–138
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Chapter 7. Causativity alternation in the lower fieldMohamed Naji | pp. 139–160
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Chapter 8. Another argument for the differences among wa-marked phrasesKoichiro Nakamura | pp. 161–180
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Section II. Theoretical and descriptive issues in syntactic cartography: A Chinese linguistic perspective
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Chapter 9. Quantifictional binding without surface c-command in Mandarin ChineseC.-T. James Huang and Jo-Wang Lin | pp. 183–216
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Chapter 10. Towards a cartography of light verbsFuzhen Si | pp. 217–242
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Chapter 11. Attitudinal applicative in actionSeng-Hian Lau and Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai | pp. 243–260
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Chapter 12. Multiple counterparts of Mandarin qu (go) in Teochew and their cartographic distributions: A new perspective into its multiple syntactic functions and grammaticalization processZhuosi Luo | pp. 261–286
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Chapter 13. On the syntactic representation of Chinese you (有) in “you + VP” constructionFuqiang Li | pp. 287–322
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Index | pp. 323–327
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List of contributors | p. 328
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax