<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This commentary relates Fukui’s (2015) note on weak vs. strong generation to two aspects of quantification in Chinese: quantifier scope and the syntactic licensing conditions of noninterrogative <italic>wh</italic>-expressions. It is shown that the phenomena under discussion echo Fukui’s (2015) view that only strong generation allows for a deeper understanding of natural language and that dependencies are to be distinguished structurally.</p></abstract>

This commentary relates Fukui’s (2015) note on weak vs. strong generation to two aspects of quantification in Chinese: quantifier scope and the syntactic licensing conditions of noninterrogative wh-expressions. It is shown that the phenomena under discussion echo Fukui’s (2015) view that only strong generation allows for a deeper understanding of natural language and that dependencies are to be distinguished structurally.

A note on Fukui’s note

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Studies in Chinese Linguistics

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This commentary relates Fukui’s (2015) note on weak vs. strong generation to two aspects of quantification in Chinese: quantifier scope and the syntactic...

A note on Fukui’s note

Publié en ligne: 30 déc. 2015

Pages: 69 - 80

Reçu: 02 mars 2015

Accepté: 24 juin 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2015-0005

Mots clés
strong generation, dependency, Chinese quantification, noninterrogative -phrases

© 2015 Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A note on Fukui’s note

Publié en ligne: 30 déc. 2015

Pages: 69 - 80

Reçu: 02 mars 2015

Accepté: 24 juin 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2015-0005

Mots clésstrong generation, dependency, Chinese quantification, noninterrogative -phrases

© 2015 Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
strong generation, dependency, Chinese quantification, noninterrogative -phrases