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The structure of noun phrases in Chi...

Chen, Qiming.

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The structure of noun phrases in Chinese and its consequences.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The structure of noun phrases in Chinese and its consequences./
作者:	Chen, Qiming.
面頁冊數:	264 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-09, Section: A, page: 3912.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-09A.
標題:	Linguistics. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9707578
ISBN:	9780591148619

The structure of noun phrases in Chinese and its consequences.
Chen, Qiming.

The structure of noun phrases in Chinese and its consequences. - 264 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-09, Section: A, page: 3912.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 1996.

Human beings are the most intelligent species in this world. Their intelligence is clearly displayed in their innate knowledge of language, and the way with which they parameterize their innate knowledge of language to their knowledge of a particular natural language. As convincingly argued by Lightfoot (1991) and many other researchers, given certain simple and specific language inputs, the structures of that particular language can successfully be parameterized from the innate Universal Grammar by children acquiring that language. This thesis follows this line of reasoning. It explores the internal structure of Noun Phrases in Chinese, and the relationship between Noun Phrases and sentences with respect to language parameterization. It specifically studies the agreement structure of numerical noun phrases in Chinese, and argues that this structure is the parameterized primitive agreement structure in Chinese. Following Chomsky's (1993) assumption that the agreement process can only be performed in a SPEC-head relation, following Kayne's theory of LCA, and following the SPEC-head Agreement Hypothesis, we argue that in Chinese, a functional head only agrees with its complement argument but not its specifier argument. It naturally leads to the claim that a "subject", or a specifier argument, in any construction in Chinese is in an adjunction position. Given this result, the puzzle of the ease of subject extractions, and the puzzle of the frequent occurrence of null-subject phenomenon can be resolved in a unified way. In addition, this theory provides the same unified account for deletion structures within DPs, modifier structure within DPs, the modifier structure of AP, the modifier structure of VP, the structure in answers to yes-or-no questions, and other relevant constructions in Chinese. In a word, this thesis intends to show that by accessing the parametric primitive agreement structure in a language, children acquiring that language can successfully parameterize the innate Universal Grammar into a particular grammar.

ISBN: 9780591148619Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

The structure of noun phrases in Chinese and its consequences.
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