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Cheung Chi-hang. / Thesis submitted in: July 2003. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-173). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / ASTRACT / NOTATIONS / LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction and theoretical framework / Chapter 1.1. --- Central goals of the dissertation --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2. --- The theoretical framework --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2.1. --- The Principles-and-Parameters approach --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2.2. --- The Minimalist Program --- p.9 / Chapter 1.2.2.1. --- The language faculty --- p.9 / Chapter 1.2.2.2. --- The lexicon --- p.11 / Chapter 1.2.2.3. --- Structure building Operations: Merge and Move --- p.12 / Chapter 1.2.2.4. --- Economy conditions --- p.16 / Chapter 1.3 --- Organization of the dissertation --- p.17 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Nominal constructions of Jingpo / Chapter 2.1. --- Introduction --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2. --- Word order and the sentence final particles --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3. --- Classifiers and cardinal numbers --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3.1. --- Classifiers --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3.2. --- Cardinal numbers --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4. --- Demonstratives --- p.38 / Chapter 2.4.1. --- The semantic meanings of the demonstratives --- p.39 / Chapter 2.4.2. --- Properties and distributions of the demonstratives --- p.43 / Chapter 2.4.3. --- Noun phrases with singular demonstratives and the cardinal number mi ´بone' --- p.47 / Chapter 2.5. --- Adjectives --- p.49 / Chapter 2.6. --- A summary --- p.51 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- The structure of noun phrases in Jingpo / Chapter 3.1. --- Introduction --- p.53 / Chapter 3.2. --- The DP Hypothesis --- p.54 / Chapter 3.3. --- The noun phrase structures of Mandarin and Cantonese --- p.56 / Chapter 3.3.1. --- The DP analysis --- p.57 / Chapter 3.3.2. --- The C1P analysis --- p.62 / Chapter 3.3.3. --- The DP analysis revisited --- p.71 / Chapter 3.4. --- The syntactic account based on Fukui and Saito's (1996) version of Merge --- p.80 / Chapter 3.5. --- The syntactic account based on Kayne's (1994) LCA --- p.92 / Chapter 3.5.1. --- The inverse order of Jingpo noun phrases --- p.92 / Chapter 3.5.2. --- The asymmetry in singular vs. plural demonstratives --- p.102 / Chapter 3.6. --- Concluding remarks --- p.113 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Classifiers versus plural morphology / Chapter 4.1. --- Introduction --- p.114 / Chapter 4.2. --- Evidence against the semantic parametric approach --- p.115 / Chapter 4.2.1. --- The Nominal Mapping Parameter --- p.116 / Chapter 4.2.2. --- Puzzles: the nominal data from Jingpo --- p.119 / Chapter 4.3. --- Classifiers and plural morphemes --- p.125 / Chapter 4.3.1. --- The count-classifiers versus massifiers proposal --- p.125 / Chapter 4.3.2. --- The classifiers in Jingpo --- p.129 / Chapter 4.3.3. --- The plural morphemes in classifier languages --- p.131 / Chapter 4.4. --- The syntactic approach --- p.138 / Chapter 4.4.1. --- The nominal structures of classifier and non-classifier languages --- p.139 / Chapter 4.4.2. --- The nominal structure of English-type languages --- p.144 / Chapter 4.4.3. --- A unified account --- p.151 / Chapter 4.5. --- Concluding remarks --- p.157 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- The epilogue / Chapter 5.1. --- Introduction --- p.159 / Chapter 5.2. --- The C1P versus DP analysis --- p.159 / Chapter 5.3. --- Linear order --- p.160 / Chapter 5.4. --- The roles of classifiers and plural morphemes in classifier languages --- p.162 / Chapter 5.5. --- An area for future research --- p.164 / REFERENCES --- p.166

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