Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese : : A Minimalist Account / / 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 acco...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XV, 308 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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