Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2017

What you see is what you get: Chinese sentence-final particles as head-final complementisers

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The present article presents an in-depth analysis of the head-final three-layered split CP realized by sentence-final particles (SFPs) in the SVO language Mandarin Chinese. These SFPs are shown to be fully-fledged functional heads with a complex feature make-up, on a par with C elements in e.g. Indo-European languages. Chinese SFPs select and project, as evidenced by the strict hierarchy for co- occurring SFPs in the split CP. This structure must be merged as such and cannot be derived by postulating movement from a head-initial CP. It straightforwardly invalidates empirically superficial statements that attempt to turn Chinese SFPs into a grammatical quantite negligeable in order to uphold problematic word order generalizations such as the Final-over-Final Constraint.

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halshs-01425413 , version 1 (03-01-2017)

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Waltraud Paul, Victor Junnan Pan. What you see is what you get: Chinese sentence-final particles as head-final complementisers. Discourse Particles – Formal Approaches to their Syntax and Semantics, 564, De Gruyter Mouton, pp.49-77, 2017, Linguistische Arbeiten, 9783110497151. ⟨10.1515/9783110497151-003⟩. ⟨halshs-01425413⟩
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