author: andrew simpson

Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective

... at the initial site with overt movement, whereas they are deleted at the landing site with covert movement. Assuming ... V2] ... [V1 + V2 ]...V 2 ... ] For (41), if deletion takes place after each step of the derivation, then the ...

Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation: Perspectives from East Asian Languages

... Summary The following table summarizes the above observation: Stage-level ... interpretation is a site for subjects of categorical judgments. Let us call ... interpretation is a site for subjects of thetic judgments. One may call such a ...

Language and Society: An Introduction

An Introduction Andrew Simpson. situations, with boy students dominating talking to teachers much more than girl students (Elliot 1974; French and French 1984; Graddol and Swann 1989). One study of over a hundred classes in both arts and ...

Language and National Identity in Asia

Andrew Simpson. of writing. Simultaneously with the adoption of quoc ngu and colloquial Vietnamese for formal purposes came a resistance to the adoption of French in formal domains, not highlighted in this chapter, but nevertheless ...

Language and National Identity in Asia

... language of the original Aryans was proto-Sanskrit, and over time gave rise ... language type present on the subcontinent, now identiWed as 'Dravidian'. Who ... the second largest language family in India, and include Kannada, Malayalam ...

Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation: Perspectives from East Asian Languages

... 10-nen this/that/that-GEN plan-ACC first proposed person-NOM 10-year mae-no taisikan bakuha keikaku-nozikkoo sekininsya-ninaru beforeGEN embassy bombing plan-GEN execution leader-DAT become bekidatta. should.have 'The person who first ...

The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

... Taiwanese. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 43: 201–220. Li. Y. 1986. Historical significance of certain distinct grammatical features in Taiwanese. In: Contributions to Sino- Tibetan ... Taiwanese Hokkien/Southern Min 655.

Wh-movement and the Theory of Feature-checking

... Comp at Spell - Out may not take scope at any + Q Comp higher than the one in which it occurs at Spell - Out ( 93 ) , nor may it take scope at any lower + Q Comp ( 89 ) . Were wh - movement to Comp to be required to take place only by ...

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