Cartographic syntax of performative projections: evidence from Cantonese

Tang, Sze-Wing

doi:10.1007/s10831-019-09202-7

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“…Although being located at the end of the sentence, SFPs are often classified as a phenomenon that belongs to the left periphery. I simply accept the assumption that SFPs are head-final and their surface positions at the right sentential periphery can be derived straightforwardly, as suggested by, inter alia, Tang (2010), Paul (2014), Pan and Paul (2016), Tang (2020).…”

Section: Cartography and Split Cp Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 92%

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Demonstratives as Sentence Final Particles and the Architecture of the Periphery in Vietnamese

Quy

2021

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This paper analyzes Vietnamese demonstrative sentence-final particles (SFP) from the perspective of generative syntax. Such demonstratives as đây, kia, này, kìa, and đấy can be used at the end of a sentence to mark the psychological distance between the speaker and the proposition. These SFPs can be divided into two groups: particles in Group I (namely đây and kia) are used to describe the relation between the speaker and the proposition while elements from Group II (i.e., này, kìa, and đấy) are employed to call for the addressee’s attention or to persuade the addressee to believe in the propositional content. đây này, kia kìa, and kia đấy are three cases of SFPs used in clusters. From Generative Grammar and Cartography’s perspective, the sentential periphery can be split into three functional projections. The lowest functional projection, namely AttP, encodes the speaker’s commitment to the proposition, while attP encodes the addressee’s propositional attitude. The highest layer DiscP represents the speaker’s attitude towards the addressee. Particles from Group I are base-generated at the Head position of AttP, whereas Group II belongs to attP.

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“…From the perspective of Generative Syntax and Cartography, the paper analyzes the phenomenon of SFP clusters in Vietnamese, inspired by the comprehensive analyses of SFPs in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese conducted by Li (2006), Pan (2019), Lau (2019), and Tang (2020).…”

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Demonstratives as Sentence Final Particles and the Architecture of the Periphery in Vietnamese

Quy

2021

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“…section 5) can be used as interjections. Tang (2011) similarly proposed an extra projection above his projection for outer SFPs, arguing that this is where Cantonese interjections lie. Note that Haegeman (2014) said interjections must occupy the higher of her two speechact projections; she did not say that all particles in the higher projection must be interjections.…”

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“…The particle laa1 was concluded to have seven meanings and was thus counted as seven SFPs. Tang (2020) included particles that he said headed a projection at the periphery of the little verb phrase (vP), and he therefore counted >40 SFPs. Here, I treat such particles as adverbs (cf.…”

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“…However, the interjection versions never appear sentence-initially; they only appear after a sentence after a short pause, and they always appear in isolation. For details on both of these particles, seeCheung (2007) andTang (2020). If they do indeed have two versions, then the SFP version is assumed to head DiscourseP and the interjection version to head AffectP.…”

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The Syntax and Semantics of Cantonese Particles in the Left Periphery

Wakefield

2020

Studies in Chinese Linguistics

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Adopting the cartographic approach, this paper proposes syntactic positions for all left-periphery particles above the tense phrase (TP) in Cantonese. These include both sentence-final particles and sentence-initial particles that can be used in isolation as interjections. Based on previous syntactic proposals for the left periphery, a modification of Rizzi’s (2001) split-complementizer phrase (Split-CP) structure is proposed. A Deictic Phrase (DeicP) is added above the finite phrase (FinP) for the Cantonese “tense” particles laa3 and lei4(ge3). Then, based on a number of proposals inspired by Speas and Tenny (2003), two functional phrases are added above the force phrase (ForceP) – a higher affect phrase (AffectP) for Cantonese sentence-initial particles and a lower discourse phrase (DiscourseP) for most of the sentence-final particles. The resulting structure is tentatively proposed to account for the word order of all left-periphery particles in Cantonese, bringing the description of their syntax closer in line with a number of proposals based on left-periphery particles in other languages. This proposal includes a three-way distinction of the functions and meanings of left-periphery particles: 1) particles that lie between ForceP and TP do not refer directly to the discourse context; 2) particles that head DiscourseP do refer directly to the discourse; and 3) particles that head AffectP refer to the discourse and express human emotions.

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Degree Intensification and Sentential Functions in Chengdu Chinese

Xiong

Hsieh

2021

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Cartographic syntax of performative projections: evidence from Cantonese

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Demonstratives as Sentence Final Particles and the Architecture of the Periphery in Vietnamese

Demonstratives as Sentence Final Particles and the Architecture of the Periphery in Vietnamese

The Syntax and Semantics of Cantonese Particles in the Left Periphery

Degree Intensification and Sentential Functions in Chengdu Chinese

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