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Wh-ex-situ in Mandarin Chinese: Mapping Between Information Structure and Split CP

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This paper examines the so-called wh-ex-situ phenomenon in Mandarin Chinese. It shows that there are four different types of wh-ex-situ in the left-periphery of Mandarin: Type I: extracted wh-topic, Type II: extracted wh-focus, Type III: base-generated wh-topic and Type IV: base-generated wh-focus. This differs from preceding accounts which analyze all ex-situ wh-phrases either as topics (cf. Tang 1988, Wu 1999) or as foci (cf. Cheung 2008, 2014). These four types display different syntactic and semantic properties. While wh-topics (extracted and base-generated) must be D-linked and obey locality constraints as well as the “episodic eventuality” constraint (cf. Zhang 2002), ex-situ wh-foci do not. However, the four types all satisfy general semantic constraints on interrogatives. Within the split-CP architecture in Chinese, ex-situ wh-topics and ex-situ wh-foci occupy different positions, TopP being higher than FocP. 
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halshs-01428546, version 1 (06-01-2017)

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Victor Junnan Pan. Wh-ex-situ in Mandarin Chinese: Mapping Between Information Structure and Split CP. Linguistic Analysis, 2014, 39, pp.413. ⟨halshs-01428546⟩
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