Vp Ellipsis In Mandarin Chinese
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VP Ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese
Author | : 蘇政傑 |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Chinese language |
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The thesis aims to study Chinese VP ellipsis construction under a minimalist approach. It is prpoposed that there are four constructions relating to VP ellipsis in Chinese, i.e. ye-shi, ye-you, mei-you, and modal. The constructions involving VP ellipsis can be captured under a hypothesis in which a Focus Phrase, dominated by a Topic Phrase, immediately dominates the elided VP or other functional projection. Subject in the target clause is in fact a focus topic while preverbal adverbials like 'ye' and 'mei' locate the specifier of FP with respect to their focused nature in Chinese. Under the feature-checking mechanism, the subject and focus element are merged to eliminate the [Topic] and [Focus] feature. Within the prevoiusly known requirement that elided phrases express semantically entailment information, the proposed VP ellipsis constructions satisfy the e-Givenness Condition. It emerges from the thesis that rejecting that presentational use of 'you' construes a lower ellipsis site (v' or V') it is argued that what elided in the case is still a phrasal level. Although Chinese subordinate structures seem to be blurred in its ellipsis nature, some of which are subject to VP ellipsis construction. From a cross-linguistic investigation, it is further suggested that in languages with no V to T movement, Chinese has VP ellipsis on a par with English on the one hand, and patterns together with Japanese and Korean on having Null Object Construction on the other.
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