Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese : : A Minimalist Account / / Victor Junnan Pan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Pan, Victor Junnan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 298
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XV, 308 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of abbreviations --; 1. Resumptivity: an overview --; 2. Syntactic derivation: two types of A’-dependencies --; 3. Reconstruction and internal structures of resumptive pronouns --; 4. Specificity effects --; 5. Concluding remarks --; 6. Appendix: General distribution of the resumptive pronouns in Mandarin Chinese --; References --; Subject index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110492385; 9783110649826; 9783110762501; 9783110701005; 9783110742978; 9783110485103; 9783110485257
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110492385
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Victor Junnan Pan.

The use of resumptive pronouns is quite productive in Mandarin Chinese; however, their distribution has rarely been studied in a systematic way. This book not only gives a thorough description of the general distribution of resumptive pronouns in different contexts but also offers a theoretical account in the framework of the Minimalist Program. Different types of A'-dependencies, mediated by gaps and by resumptive pronouns, are derived by different minimalist mechanisms, such as Agree, Match and Move. These mechanisms only apply at Narrow Syntax and do not uniformly obey locality constraints. Importantly, interpretative properties of an A'-bound element, such as reconstruction effects, is only related to its internal structure irrespective of how the A'-chain concerned is derived. From this perspective, resumptivity is an exclusively syntactic-related phenomenon and is thus not subject to any interface condition. Adopting a comparative approach, this study improves the general understanding of resumptivity crosslinguistically.