Li, Haoze. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-163). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.v / Table of Contents --- p.vii / List of Abbreviations --- p.x / Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- What are focus intervention effects --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Theoretical framework --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Minimalist Program --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Classification of features --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Agree --- p.6 / Chapter 1.3 --- Previous studies of Mandarin wh-questions --- p.7 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- wh-nominals --- p.8 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- wh-adverbials --- p.10 / Chapter 1.4 --- Organization of the thesis --- p.18 / Chapter Chapter Two --- Literature review --- p.21 / Chapter 2.1 --- Two types of intervention effects --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2 --- LF movement blocking --- p.24 / Chapter 2.3 --- Separation Principle --- p.26 / Chapter 2.4 --- Agree blocking --- p.36 / Chapter 2.5 --- Competition effect --- p.39 / Chapter 2.6 --- Summary --- p.43 / Chapter Chapter Three --- Mandarin contrastive focus particles --- p.44 / Chapter 3.1 --- Focus --- p.44 / Chapter 3.2 --- Information focus vs. contrastive focus --- p.46 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Semantic interpretation --- p.47 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Syntactic distribution --- p.50 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Syntactic association --- p.51 / Chapter 3.3 --- Mandarin contrastive focus particles --- p.52 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Semantic Properties --- p.53 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Syntactic Distributions --- p.58 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Association with focused constituents --- p.65 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- "Inner focus, Outer focus and Agree" --- p.70 / Chapter 3.4 --- Summary --- p.73 / Chapter Chapter Four --- Focus intervention effects --- p.75 / Chapter 4.1 --- Focus intervention effects in wh-questions with wh-nominals --- p.75 / Chapter 4.2 --- Focus intervention effects in wh-questions with wh-adverbials --- p.78 / Chapter 4.3 --- F-XP association and F-Wh association --- p.91 / Chapter 4.4 --- Weakening or canceling contexts --- p.98 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Embedded contexts --- p.99 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- D-linking contexts --- p.102 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- wh-fronting contexts --- p.105 / Chapter 4.5 --- Summary --- p.108 / Chapter Chapter Five --- The syntactic analysis of focus intervention effects --- p.110 / Chapter 5.1 --- Inadequacies of previous proposals --- p.110 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Soh's (2005) Separation principle --- p.111 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Kim's (2006) Agree blocking analysis --- p.112 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Yang's (2008) Competition effect --- p.114 / Chapter 5.2 --- Interrogative wh-words and focus --- p.115 / Chapter 5.3 --- The syntactic mechanism of focus intervention effects --- p.117 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Proposal --- p.117 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Configurations with focus intervention effects --- p.119 / Chapter 5.3.3 --- Configurations without focus intervention effects --- p.121 / Chapter 5.3.4 --- Interim summary --- p.123 / Chapter 5.4 --- Alternative analysis and residual issues --- p.123 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Focus conflict --- p.123 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Residual issues --- p.126 / Chapter 5.5 --- Summary --- p.133 / Chapter Chapter Six --- Conclusion --- p.136 / Chapter 6.1 --- Summary --- p.136 / Chapter 6.2 --- Contributions of the current study --- p.138 / Chapter 6.3 --- Residual issues --- p.139 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Individual feature matching vs. feature matrix matching --- p.140 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- LF movement of contrastive focus --- p.143 / Chapter 6.3.3 --- Multiple wh-questions and LF unselective binding --- p.145 / Chapter 6.3.4 --- Focus intervention effects are not related to LF representations --- p.148 / Bibliography --- p.157
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_327516 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Contributors | Li, Haoze., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Linguistics. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, x, 163 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use 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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