Pro-Drop in Chinese: A Generalized Control Theory

Huang, Chu‐Ren

doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2540-3_6

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“…In contrast, Chinese does not allow argument sprouting, because a wh-phrase is not raised to the clause-periphery position. However, Chinese allows its arguments to be empty (argument drop or argument ellipsis, see Huang 1982Huang , 1984Huang , 1987Huang , 1989 The two sets of sentences do differ in acceptability, as noted. When the object is empty in (47-48), the subsequent [pro be wh] is not acceptable.…”

Section: Subcategorization and Argument Ellipsismentioning

confidence: 92%

Sluicing, Sprouting and Missing Objects

Wei

2017

Studies in Chinese Linguistics

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Taking "sluicing" to be derived by movement + deletion, as represented by Merchant (2001), and "pseudo-sluicing" to be a base-generated structure [pro (+be) + wh] (going by Wei 2004; Adams 2004), this paper reviews arguments for and against the presence of a sluicing construction in Mandarin Chinese. We show that all the tests available in the literature do not argue against the presence of such a sluicing construction, except the test building on the distribution of the copula shi. Unfortunately, the shi test is demonstrated to be uncertain and it cannot be used to argue conclusively that only a base-generation pseudo-sluicing analysis should be adopted. We show that a much clear evidence for an exclusive pseudo-sluicing analysis comes from the behavior of the sprouting construction. Investigation of sprouting also sheds light on the properties of null arguments, topic-variable relation, locality, and subcategorization of verbs in the language.

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Section: Subcategorization and Argument Ellipsismentioning

confidence: 92%

Sluicing, Sprouting and Missing Objects

Wei

2017

Studies in Chinese Linguistics

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“…The clausal complements of predicates such as sihu, hoaxing 'seem' and keneng 'likely/probably' can host overt referential subjects, but these are finite, as diagnosed by the possibility of them hosting modals (Huang 1989), and these morphemes do not in any case behave like verbs (J-W Lin 2010, Pan & Paul 2014 As mentioned above, further diagnostics for finiteness in Mandarin include the distribution/scope of the aspectual particles le and zai and the availability of object shift (see Huang 1982, 1989, Li 1990, Tang 1990, Tang 2000, Tsai 1995, Paul 2002, Lin 2011. Evidence that the complement in (45) is non-finite comes from its incompatibility with the perfect/inchoative particle le, as shown in (46) (from Lin 2011).…”

Section: Dp Subject Of a Non-finite Clausementioning

confidence: 99%

Nominal licensing in caseless languages

Sheehan

Wal

2018

J. Ling.

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This paper provides evidence for a kind of nominal licensing (Vergnaud licensing) in a number of morphologically caseless languages. Recent work on Bantu languages, has suggested that abstract Case or nominal licensing should be parameterised (Diercks 2012, Van der Wal 2015a). With this is mind, we critically discuss the status of Vergnaud licensing in six languages lacking morphological case and agreement. While Luganda appears to systematically lack a Vergnaud licensing requirement, Makhuwa more consistently displays evidence in favour of it, as do all of the analytic languages that we survey (Mandarin, Yoruba, Jamaican Creole and Thai). We conclude that, while it seems increasingly problematic to characterise nominal licensing in terms of uninterpretable/abstract Case features, we nonetheless need to retain a (possibly universal) notion of nominal licensing, the explanation for which remains opaque.

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“…Huang (1984Huang ( , 1989 proposes a generalized control theory and argues that "identification hypothesis is essentially correct, but that it must be more broadly interpreted than is assumed in the agreement-based theory".…”

Section: Discourse-based Pro-drop Language-chinesementioning

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“…Chinese Huang (1989), verbs in Chinese try, manage, fail, condescend, and decide etc. require obligatory control, while say, ask, and wonder etc.…”

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Cross-linguistic Variations of pro Licensing Conditions

Zhang

2016

JLTR

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Abstract-Null subject languages are generally called pro-drop languages. According to the generative syntactic analysis, languages can be divided into pro-drop and non-pro-drop languages. Subject Agreement (AgrS) is argued to be the licensing condition for the null subject languages. Nevertheless, pro-drop licensing conditions may vary in different languages. This paper analyzes various null subject languages with different pro-drop licensing conditions from cross-linguistic perspective.

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Pro-Drop in Chinese: A Generalized Control Theory

Cited by 257 publications

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Sluicing, Sprouting and Missing Objects

Sluicing, Sprouting and Missing Objects

Nominal licensing in caseless languages

Cross-linguistic Variations of pro Licensing Conditions

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