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

Zu, Xin. / "August 2011." / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 221-233). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / 論文提要 --- p.ii / Dedication --- p.iii / Acknowledgements --- p.iv / Table of Contents --- p.vii / List of Notations --- p.x / List of Abbreviations --- p.xi / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background and major claims --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Overview of the thesis --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- A note on data collection --- p.7 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Theoretical Background --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Minimalism --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Levels of representation --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Distributed morphology --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Economy as the guiding principle --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- The feature checking operation --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3 --- Theoretical assumptions --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- The syntax of extended projections --- p.22 / Chapter 2.3.1.1 --- Projecting CP --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3.1.2 --- Projecting DP --- p.24 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- The cartographic approach --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3.2.1 --- Splitting CP --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.2.2 --- Splitting DP --- p.36 / Chapter 2.4. --- Concluding remarks --- p.50 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Language Background --- p.52 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.52 / Chapter 3.2 --- A sketch of the Jingpo language --- p.53 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Word order --- p.54 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Morphological typology --- p.61 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- The pro drop --- p.63 / Chapter 3.3 --- Previous studies on Jingpo noun phrase structure --- p.66 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Simplex noun phrases --- p.67 / Chapter 3.3.1.1 --- Bare nouns and referentiality --- p.67 / Chapter 3.3.1.2 --- The fixed order N-Cl-Num --- p.69 / Chapter 3.3.1.3 --- The optionality of classifiers --- p.71 / Chapter 3.3.1.4 --- The two ones - langai and mi --- p.75 / Chapter 3.3.1.5 --- The two plural markers - -hte and ni --- p.80 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Complex nominals --- p.90 / Chapter 3.3.2.1 --- Prenominal and postnominal adjectives --- p.91 / Chapter 3.3.2.2 --- Prenominal and postnominal demonstratives --- p.97 / Chapter 3.4 --- Concluding remarks --- p.98 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- The Right Periphery of Jingpo Clauses --- p.100 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.100 / Chapter 4.2 --- The rightmost edge of Jingpo clauses --- p.101 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Evidentiality --- p.101 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Speech acts --- p.106 / Chapter 4.3 --- Sentence final particles --- p.109 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Clause typing --- p.110 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Agreement --- p.118 / Chapter 4.3.2.1 --- Subject agreement --- p.119 / Chapter 4.3.2.2 --- Object agreement --- p.120 / Chapter 4.3.2.3 --- Possessor agreement --- p.122 / Chapter 4.3.2.4 --- The simplification of Jingpo agreement system --- p.124 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Change of state --- p.130 / Chapter 4.3.4 --- Emphatic mood --- p.134 / Chapter 4.3.5 --- Spatial deixis --- p.137 / Chapter 4.3.6 --- Jingpo SFPs as portmanteau forms --- p.137 / Chapter 4.4 --- The structure of the clause periphery in Jingpo --- p.139 / Chapter 4.5 --- The asymmetry between Jingpo matrix and embedded clauses --- p.142 / Chapter 4.6 --- Concluding remarks --- p.149 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Feature Checking at the Right Periphery --- p.151 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.151 / Chapter 5.2 --- Syntactic analysis of Jingpo evidentiality --- p.151 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- The syntax of speech act and sentience --- p.151 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- The feature geometry of referring expressions --- p.153 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- The syntactic representations of the two types of evidentiality --- p.154 / Chapter 5.2.4 --- Accounting for the ordering constraints --- p.157 / Chapter 5.3 --- The consequences of the feature checking analysis --- p.161 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Agreement with pragmatic roles --- p.161 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- The shifting of agreement relations across clause types --- p.167 / Chapter 5.3.3 --- Person constraint on subjects --- p.170 / Chapter 5.4 --- Concluding remarks --- p.171 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Jingpo from the Cartographic Perspective --- p.173 / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.173 / Chapter 6.2 --- Functional heads and their specifiers --- p.175 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Jingpo auxiliaries and their relation to adverbs --- p.176 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Prenominal and postnominal adjectives --- p.180 / Chapter 6.3 --- Evidence for postulating an articulated DP structure --- p.185 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Multiple occurrences of demonstratives --- p.185 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- The internal DP layer --- p.192 / Chapter 6.3.3 --- The differential object marker hpe --- p.198 / Chapter 6.4 --- Concluding remarks --- p.208 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.210 / Chapter 7.1 --- Introduction --- p.210 / Chapter 7.2 --- Recapitulation of major claims --- p.211 / Chapter 7.3 --- Future directions of research --- p.212 / Chapter Appendix A --- Pear Story --- p.215 / Bibliography --- p.221