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The topic structure: more evidence from English and Chinese.

by Gu Gang. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-142). / Abstract also in Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.v / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1 --- Grammaticality and Acceptability --- p.7 / Chapter 2.2 --- The X-bar Theory --- p.9 / Chapter 2.3 --- C-command --- p.10 / Chapter 2.4 --- Barrier --- p.11 / Chapter 2.5 --- Government --- p.12 / Chapter 2.6 --- The Binding Theory --- p.13 / Chapter 2.7 --- Indexation --- p.16 / Chapter 2.7.1 --- Lexical Words --- p.17 / Chapter 2.7.2 --- Trace --- p.19 / Chapter 2.7.2.1 --- The ECP --- p.21 / Chapter 2.7.2.2 --- The Overt Trace --- p.23 / Chapter 2.7.3 --- PRO --- p.25 / Chapter 2.7.4 --- pro --- p.28 / Chapter 2.7.5 --- Summary --- p.29 / Chapter 2.8 --- The General Control --- p.30 / Chapter 2.9 --- Summary --- p.33 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- THE CLASSIFICATION OF TOPIC STRUCTURES --- p.35 / Chapter 3.1 --- The Definition --- p.35 / Chapter 3.2 --- Topicalized Topics and Left-Dislocalized Topics --- p.40 / Chapter 3.3 --- Pure Topics and Contrastive Topics --- p.42 / Chapter 3.4 --- The Topic PP --- p.47 / Chapter 3.5 --- Covert Passive Structures --- p.50 / Chapter 3.6 --- Summary --- p.54 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- SOME APPROACHES ON THE GENERATION OF THE TOPIC STRUCTURE --- p.56 / Chapter 4.1 --- Ross (1967) --- p.56 / Chapter 4.2 --- Chomsky (1977) --- p.59 / Chapter 4.3 --- Brunson (1992) --- p.60 / Chapter 4.4 --- "Huang (1984, 1987,1989, 1991)" --- p.61 / Chapter 4.5 --- "Xu (1985,1986, 1994)" --- p.64 / Chapter 4.6 --- Summary --- p.65 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- The BASE-GENERATION APPROACH --- p.67 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Identification of the Gap in the Comment --- p.67 / Chapter 5.2 --- Subjacency Effect or Control Failure? --- p.70 / Chapter 5.3 --- Free Empty Categories --- p.76 / Chapter 5.4 --- The Base-Generated Variable --- p.82 / Chapter 5.5 --- Summary --- p.84 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- THE TOPIC PP --- p.85 / Chapter 6.1 --- Disconstituents --- p.85 / Chapter 6.2 --- The Order Among PPs --- p.87 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- English --- p.87 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Chinese --- p.88 / Chapter 6.2.2.1 --- Temporal Adjuncts --- p.88 / Chapter 6.2.2.2 --- Locative Adjuncts --- p.94 / Chapter 6.2.2.3 --- Relative Position of the Parallel Adjuncts --- p.96 / Chapter 6.3 --- Topic PPs and Disconstituents --- p.98 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Topic PPs and V-bar Disconstituents --- p.98 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Topic PPs and Subject --- p.102 / Chapter 6.3.3 --- AS for Topics and Disconstituents --- p.105 / Chapter 6.4 --- Summary --- p.107 / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- THE RESUMPTIVE PRONOUN IN THE COMMENT --- p.109 / Chapter 7.1 --- A Controversy --- p.109 / Chapter 7.2 --- Traces and Resumptive Pronouns --- p.111 / Chapter 7.3 --- The Binding Constraint --- p.115 / Chapter 7.4 --- The Complex NP --- p.117 / Chapter 7.5 --- Why Overt? --- p.119 / Chapter 7.6 --- Summary --- p.129 / Chapter CHAPTER 8 --- CONCLUSIONS --- p.130 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.135

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_322239
Date January 1998
ContributorsGu, Gang, Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of English.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, vii, 142 leaves ; 30 cm.
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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