Control, inner topicalisation, and focus fronting in Mandarin Chinese: modelling in parallel constraint-based grammatical architecture

• Autorzy: Lam, Chit-Fung
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Thispaperproposesaformalanalysisoftwodisplacementphenomenain Mandarin Chinese, namely inner topicalisation and focus fronting,capturing their correlational relationships with control and comple-mentation. It examines a range of relevant data, including corpus ex-amples, to derive empirical generalisations. Acceptability-judgmenttasks, followed by mixed-effects statistical models, were conductedto provide additional evidence. This paper presents a constraint-basedlexicalistproposalthatiscouchedintheframeworkofLexical-FunctionalGrammar(LFG).Thelexiconplaysanimportantroleinreg-ulatingthebehaviourofcomplementationverbsastheyparticipateinthedisplacementphenomena.Unlikepreviousanalysesthatcastinnertopicalisationandfocusfrontingasrestructuringphenomena,thislex-icalist proposal does not rely on hypothesised clause-size differences.Itcapturestheempiricalpropertiesmoreaccuratelyandaccountsfora wider range of empirical patterns. Adopting the formally explicitframework of LFG, this proposal uses constraints that have mathe-matical precision. The constraints are computationally implementedusing the grammar engineering tool Xerox Linguistic Environment,safeguardingtheirprecision.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

control; complementation; inner topicalisation; focus fronting; long-distance dependency; restructuring; Chinese; Lexical-Functional Grammar; accept ability-judgment experiments; grammar engineering

• Czasopismo: Journal of Language Modelling
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: Vol. 12, No. 1
• Strony: 69--153
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 83 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Lam, Chit-Fung

• Linguistics and English Language ,School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester,

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DOI

10.15398/jlm.v12i1.365