Derivation of the Apparent Narrow Scope of Sentence-Final Particles in Chinese: A Reply to Erlewine (2017)

Bailey, Laura. 2012. The syntax of question particles. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University dissertation.Search in Google Scholar

Bailey, Laura. 2015. Word order and the syntax of question particles. In Sylvie Hancil, Alexander Haselow & Margje Post (eds.), Final particles, 407–426. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.10.1515/9783110375572-017Search in Google Scholar

Chomsky, Noam. 2000. Minimalist inquiries: The framework. In Roger Martin, David Michaels & Juan Uriagereka (eds.), Step by step: Essays on minimalist syntax in honor of Howard Lasnik, 89–156. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Search in Google Scholar

Chomsky, Noam. 2001. Derivation by phase. In Michael Kenstowicz (ed.), Ken Hale: A life in language, 1–52. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.Search in Google Scholar

Chomsky, Noam. 2004. Beyond explanatory adequacy. In Belletti Adriana (ed.), Structures and beyond, 104–131. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Cinque, Guglielmo. 1999. Adverbs and functional heads. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Cinque, Guglielmo & Luigi Rizzi. 2008. The cartography of syntactic structures, STiL – Studies in Linguistics Vol. 2, CISCL Working Papers. 42–58.Search in Google Scholar

Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka. 2011. Sentence-final only and the interpretation of focus in Mandarin Chinese. In Louis Liu & Lauren Eby (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22) and the 18th annual meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-18) Volume 2. 18–35. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.Search in Google Scholar

Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka. 2017. Low sentence-final particles in Mandarin Chinese and the final-over-final constraint. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 26(1). 37–75.10.1007/s10831-016-9150-9Search in Google Scholar

Hsieh, Feng-fan & Rint Sybesma. 2011. On the linearization of Chinese sentence-final particles: Max spell out and why CP moves. Korea Journal of Chinese Language and Literature 1(1). 53–90.Search in Google Scholar

Huang, Cheng-Teh James. 1982. Logical relations in Chinese and the theory of grammar. Cambridge, MA: MIT dissertation.Search in Google Scholar

Huang, Cheng-Teh James. 1989. Pro-drop in Chinese. In Osvaldo Jaeggli & Kenneth Safir (eds.), The null subject parameter, 185–214. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.10.1007/978-94-009-2540-3_6Search in Google Scholar

Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 1986. Studies on quantification in Chinese. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles dissertation.Search in Google Scholar

Li, Yen-hui Audrey. 1992. Indefinite wh in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 1. 125–155.10.1007/BF00130234Search in Google Scholar

Pan, Haihua. 1998. Closeness, prominence and binding theory. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 16. 771–815.10.1023/A:1006056414208Search in Google Scholar

Pan, Victor Junnan. 2015. Mandarin peripheral construals at syntax-discourse interface. The Linguistic Review 32(4). 819–868.10.1515/tlr-2015-0005Search in Google Scholar

Pan, Victor Junnan. 2016. Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese: A minimalist account (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 298). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.10.1515/9783110492385Search in Google Scholar

Pan, Victor Junnan. 2017. Optional projections in the left-periphery in Mandarin Chinese. In Fuzhen Si (ed.), Studies on syntactic cartography, 216–248. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.Search in Google Scholar

Pan, Victor Junnan. 2019. Architecture of the periphery in Chinese: Cartography and minimalism (Routledge Studies on Chinese Linguistics). London & New York: Routledge.10.4324/9781315158228Search in Google Scholar

Pan, Victor Junnan & Waltraud Paul. 2016. Why Chinese SFPs are neither optional nor disjunctors. Lingua 170. 23–34.10.1016/j.lingua.2015.10.005Search in Google Scholar

Paul, Waltraud. 2014. Why particles are not particular: Sentence-final particles in Chinese as heads of a split CP. Studia Linguistica 68(1). 77–115.10.1111/stul.12020Search in Google Scholar

Paul, Waltraud. 2015. New perspectives on Chinese syntax (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 271). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.Search in Google Scholar

Paul, Waltraud & Victor Junnan Pan. 2017. What you see is what you get: Chinese sentence-final particles as head-final complementizers. In Josef Bayer & Volker Struckmeier (eds.), Discourse particles – Formal approaches to their syntax and semantics (Linguistiche Arbeiten), 49–77. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.10.1515/9783110497151-003Search in Google Scholar

Rizzi, Luigi. 1997. The fine structure of the left periphery. In Liliane Haegeman (ed.), Elements of grammar, 281–337. Dordrecht: Kluwer.10.1007/978-94-011-5420-8_7Search in Google Scholar

Rizzi, Luigi. 2004. Locality and left periphery. In Belletti Adriana (ed.), Structures and beyond. The cartography of syntactic structures, vol. 3, 104–131. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Simpson, Andrew & Zoe Wu. 2002. IP-raising, tone sandhi and creation of S-final particles: Evidence for cyclic spell-out. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 11(1). 67–99.10.1023/A:1013710111615Search in Google Scholar

Soh, Hooi Ling & Meijia Gao. 2006. Perfective aspect and transition in Mandarin Chinese: An analysis of double -le sentences. In Pascal Denis, Eric McCready, Alexis Palmer & Brian Reese (eds.), Proceeding of the 2004 Texas Linguistics Society conference: Issues at the Semantic-Pragmatics Interface, 107–122. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.Search in Google Scholar

Su, Lily I-Wen. 2004. Subjectification and the use of the complementizer SHUO. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 30(1). 19–40.Search in Google Scholar

Tang, Sze-Wing. 1998. Parametrization of features in syntax. Irvine, CA: dissertation. University of California, Irvine dissertation.Search in Google Scholar

Tang, Sze-Wing. 2015a. Cartographic syntax of pragmatic projections. In Audrey Li, Andrew Simpson & Wei-tien Dylan Tsai (eds.), Chinese syntax in a cross-linguistic perspective, 429–441. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945658.003.0016Search in Google Scholar

Tang, Sze-Wing. 2015b. A generalized syntactic schema for utterance particles in Chinese. Lingua Sinica 1(3). 1–23.10.1186/s40655-015-0005-5Search in Google Scholar

Tang, Sze-Wing. 2016. Zhitu lilun yu zhuci de lianhe jiegou shuo [Sentence-final particles as conjuncts under the cartographic approach]. Yuyan Yanjiu Jikan [Bulletin of linguistic studies] 16, 1–10.Search in Google Scholar