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