Willow Paul
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 167408 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Willow Paul |
| NOMBRES | Willow |
| APELLIDO | Paul |
| FIRMA | PAUL W |
| AFILIACIONES | Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6154-4536 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Making some progress on the progressive aspect zài in Mandarin Chinese
Taking into account data hitherto neglected, this article examines the progressive aspect zài 在 in Mandarin Chinese and related issues. We argue in favour of the constituency [AspP zài 在 [V- zhe 着]] and demonstrate important syntactic and semantic differences between the progressive aspect zài 在 and the durative aspect - zhe 着 . Importantly, unlike ‘ zài 在 V’, ‘V- zhe 着’ is only acceptable as the sole predicate in a root sentence when interpretab…
Final-over-Final Condition
The Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC) (Sheehan, Biberauer, Roberts, and Holmberg 2017) purports to be a universal word order constraint. In this article, we challenge this claim and demonstrate that the FOFC is of a statistical nature: It is a relativized ̧ non-absolute version of cross-categorial harmony, where only a head-final projection dominating a head-initial projection is ruled out among the disharmonic configurations displaying different…
I’m still not over feeling so isolated”
Improving access to culturally safe health and social services by incorporating the experiences and expertise of Métis women, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse people is crucial to mitigating the disproportional negative impacts of the pandemic and improving overall health outcomes within Métis communities across Canada
“It’s in my blood. It’s in my spirit. It’s in my ancestry”
This article illustrates perspectives on Métis cultural identity, belonging, and positionality, within the context of wellness. As authors, we have the privilege of sharing stories from 24 Métis women, Two-Spirit, and gender diverse people—living or accessing services on the unceded territory of the Lək’ w əŋən-speaking peoples (in so-called Victoria, British Columbia). Their stories illustrate personal and intergenerational journeys of reclaimin…
SVCs in disguise
The so-called directional verb compounds or directional constructions in Mandarin Chinese, ‘V1displacement V2direction lái (come)/ qù (go)’, e.g. bān chū lái ‘transport exit come’ = ‘bring out (towards the speaker)’ are not compounds, but genuine object sharing serial verb constructions in Collins’ (1997) sense. The different positions of the shared internal argument are derived by raising one, two or three verbs to v, each verb adjoining to v as…
Sentence-final particles in Mandarin Chinese
Sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Mandarin Chinese realize the heads of three projections in the rigidly ordered head-final CP ‘Low CP
Nobody there? On the non-existence of nobody in Mandarin Chinese and related issues
The present article demonstrates how the so far unchallenged misanalysis within Chinese linguistics of a few, but central, data points has led to a distorted picture biasing, inter alia , the general typology of wh -in-situ languages as well as the crosslinguistic study of Quantifier Phrases. This is the case for méi yǒu rén ‘not exist person’, hěnshǎo yǒu rén ‘rarely exist person’, and zhǐ yǒu DP ‘only exist DP’, which are not nominal projection…
De-constructing small clauses
Taking up an early observation by Y.-H. Audrey Li (1985) stating the systematic lack of Chinese equivalents for English small clauses (SC) with nominal predicates (They elected John president), this article demonstrates that Chinese lacks SCs altogether. This holds independently of the approach adopted, be it the analysis of SCs as lexical projections with different category labels (cf. Stowell 1981, Matushansky 2019) or the uniform analysis of S…
Clitic pronouns in Archaic Chinese
This article provides evidence for the so far neglected existence of two clitic pronouns, yǐ 以 and yǔ 與, in Archaic Chinese (10th c. – 3rd c. BC) in immediately verb-adjacent position: ‘ yǐ/yǔ -V’. While yǔ only encodes the comitative/associative, yǐ encodes all kinds of (argument and adjunct) roles, depending on the semantics of the verb involved. We argue that the clitic pronouns yǐ and yǔ can neither be analysed as stranded prepositions left b…
Disharmony in harmony with diachronic stability
Chinese is an intriguing case of syntactic stability. Since the earliest available documents (13th c. BC) up to today, it has displayed SVO order in combination with a head final NP as well as – in subsequent stages – other phenomena said to be typical of SOV languages, such as postpositions (since 1st c. BC) and a head-final CP (since 5th c. BC). This contradicts the received wisdom in the literature that highly ‘disharmonic’ stages are unstable…
Existential and locative constructions in Mandarin Chinese
Despite previous studies (cf. among others Huang 1987. Existential sentences in Chinese and (in)definiteness. In Eric J. Reuland & Alice G.B. Ter Meulen (eds.), The representation of (In)definiteness , 226–253. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press; Li, Yen-Hui Audrey. 1990. Order and constituency in Mandarin Chinese . Dordrecht: Kluwer; Li, Yen-Hui Audrey. 1998. Two types of existential sentences. Illinois Papers in Linguistics 26. 175–191; Pan, Haihua. 1…
A New Approach to -zhe in Mandarin Chinese
Topic Prominence
We assimilate the typological feature of topic prominence to established treatments of the left periphery. East Asian languages grouped together as topic‐prominent turn out to display important differences. In Japanese and Korean, the A‐domain extends higher than in Chinese, to include a fused FocusP/FiniteP projection. Descriptive properties sometimes associated with topic prominence include (1) obligatoriness of topics, (2) null topics, (3) ove…
What you see is what you get
International audience
Why Chinese SFPs are neither optional nor disjunctors
Why particles are not particular
Biberauer, Newton & Sheehan ( ) claim that clause-final particles are categorially deficient. This move is motivated by the fact that a number of VO languages - among them Mandarin Chinese - display sentence-final particles ( SFP s), which, when analysed as complementisers, violate the purportedly universal Final-over-Final Constraint ( FOFC ). The FOFC excludes structures where a head-final projection dominates a head-initial one. In contrast, t…
Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives
We argue that applicative heads always appear above the lexical VP, regardless of the semantics of the construction. Thematic Applicatives select a nominal expression and a VP as argument, parallel to Pylkkänen’s (2008) “high” applicatives. The applied argument is merged in Spec, ApplP and receives a role such as beneficiary. Raising Applicatives appear in the same position above the lexical VP, but do not select an underlying nominal argument. I…
Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese
The present paper examines the syntax and semantics of adjectives in Mandarin Chinese and argues that adjectives have to be recognized as a separate part of speech in Mandarin. I show that adnominal adjectives introduced by de should not be analysed as reduced relative clauses or small clauses, since adjectives that cannot be used predicatively can be used adnominally in conjunction with de . For adjectives in direct juxtaposition with the noun, …
The serial verb construction in Chinese
Shi … de focus clefts in Mandarin Chinese
Low IP area and left periphery in Mandarin Chinese
L’hypothèse de Belletti (2003), selon laquelle l’architecture fonctionnelle à l’intérieur d’IP reflète celle au-dessus d’IP, est examinée pour le mandarin. Tandis que le parallélisme entre CP et la partie basse d’IP se trouve confirmé, la hiérarchie obtenue pour le mandarin, ‘CP (force) > TopP > FocusP ‘même’ > IP > TopP interne > FocusP ‘même’ > vP’, ne correspond que partiellement à celle proposée par Rizzi (1997, 2002) et Belletti (2003), surt…
Adjectival modification in Mandarin Chinese and related issues
Against the background of recent typological studies postulating crosslinguistically valid hierarchies for the modifiers within the DP (cf. Scott 1998, 2002a, 2002b; Chao et al. 2001; Laenzlinger 2000), the present article argues that both types of modification available in Mandarin Chinese have to be taken into account: that where the subordinator de intervenes between the adjective and the head noun — ‘A de N’ — and the case of simple juxtaposi…
Verb gapping in Chinese
Functional categories, topic prominence, and complex sentences in Mandarin Chinese
Les As. analysent les phrases complexes en chinois mandarin et montrent que les conjonctions de subordination des propositions causales et conditionnelles ne sont pas des prepositions mais un exemple de la categorie fonctionnelle Conjonction o c-selectionnant un complement IP. Ils introduisent la projection fonctionnelle Top P associee au phenomene de proeminence du topic en chinois et montrent que, comme les topics nominaux, ces propositions peu…
Why particles are not particular
Biberauer, Newton & Sheehan ( ) claim that clause-final particles are categorially deficient. This move is motivated by the fact that a number of VO languages - among them Mandarin Chinese - display sentence-final particles ( SFP s), which, when analysed as complementisers, violate the purportedly universal Final-over-Final Constraint ( FOFC ). The FOFC excludes structures where a head-final projection dominates a head-initial one. In contrast, t…
Functional categories, topic prominence, and complex sentences in Mandarin Chinese
Les As. analysent les phrases complexes en chinois mandarin et montrent que les conjonctions de subordination des propositions causales et conditionnelles ne sont pas des prepositions mais un exemple de la categorie fonctionnelle Conjonction o c-selectionnant un complement IP. Ils introduisent la projection fonctionnelle Top P associee au phenomene de proeminence du topic en chinois et montrent que, comme les topics nominaux, ces propositions peu…
Adjectival modification in Mandarin Chinese and related issues
Against the background of recent typological studies postulating crosslinguistically valid hierarchies for the modifiers within the DP (cf. Scott 1998, 2002a, 2002b; Chao et al. 2001; Laenzlinger 2000), the present article argues that both types of modification available in Mandarin Chinese have to be taken into account: that where the subordinator de intervenes between the adjective and the head noun — ‘A de N’ — and the case of simple juxtaposi…
Verb gapping in Chinese
Why Chinese SFPs are neither optional nor disjunctors
I’m still not over feeling so isolated”
Improving access to culturally safe health and social services by incorporating the experiences and expertise of Métis women, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse people is crucial to mitigating the disproportional negative impacts of the pandemic and improving overall health outcomes within Métis communities across Canada
Functional categories, topic prominence, and complex sentences in Mandarin Chinese
Les As. analysent les phrases complexes en chinois mandarin et montrent que les conjonctions de subordination des propositions causales et conditionnelles ne sont pas des prepositions mais un exemple de la categorie fonctionnelle Conjonction o c-selectionnant un complement IP. Ils introduisent la projection fonctionnelle Top P associee au phenomene de proeminence du topic en chinois et montrent que, comme les topics nominaux, ces propositions peu…
Verb gapping in Chinese
Low IP area and left periphery in Mandarin Chinese
L’hypothèse de Belletti (2003), selon laquelle l’architecture fonctionnelle à l’intérieur d’IP reflète celle au-dessus d’IP, est examinée pour le mandarin. Tandis que le parallélisme entre CP et la partie basse d’IP se trouve confirmé, la hiérarchie obtenue pour le mandarin, ‘CP (force) > TopP > FocusP ‘même’ > IP > TopP interne > FocusP ‘même’ > vP’, ne correspond que partiellement à celle proposée par Rizzi (1997, 2002) et Belletti (2003), surt…
Adjectival modification in Mandarin Chinese and related issues
Against the background of recent typological studies postulating crosslinguistically valid hierarchies for the modifiers within the DP (cf. Scott 1998, 2002a, 2002b; Chao et al. 2001; Laenzlinger 2000), the present article argues that both types of modification available in Mandarin Chinese have to be taken into account: that where the subordinator de intervenes between the adjective and the head noun — ‘A de N’ — and the case of simple juxtaposi…
The serial verb construction in Chinese
Shi … de focus clefts in Mandarin Chinese
Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives
We argue that applicative heads always appear above the lexical VP, regardless of the semantics of the construction. Thematic Applicatives select a nominal expression and a VP as argument, parallel to Pylkkänen’s (2008) “high” applicatives. The applied argument is merged in Spec, ApplP and receives a role such as beneficiary. Raising Applicatives appear in the same position above the lexical VP, but do not select an underlying nominal argument. I…
Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese
The present paper examines the syntax and semantics of adjectives in Mandarin Chinese and argues that adjectives have to be recognized as a separate part of speech in Mandarin. I show that adnominal adjectives introduced by de should not be analysed as reduced relative clauses or small clauses, since adjectives that cannot be used predicatively can be used adnominally in conjunction with de . For adjectives in direct juxtaposition with the noun, …
Why particles are not particular
Biberauer, Newton & Sheehan ( ) claim that clause-final particles are categorially deficient. This move is motivated by the fact that a number of VO languages - among them Mandarin Chinese - display sentence-final particles ( SFP s), which, when analysed as complementisers, violate the purportedly universal Final-over-Final Constraint ( FOFC ). The FOFC excludes structures where a head-final projection dominates a head-initial one. In contrast, t…
What you see is what you get
International audience
Why Chinese SFPs are neither optional nor disjunctors
A New Approach to -zhe in Mandarin Chinese
Topic Prominence
We assimilate the typological feature of topic prominence to established treatments of the left periphery. East Asian languages grouped together as topic‐prominent turn out to display important differences. In Japanese and Korean, the A‐domain extends higher than in Chinese, to include a fused FocusP/FiniteP projection. Descriptive properties sometimes associated with topic prominence include (1) obligatoriness of topics, (2) null topics, (3) ove…
Disharmony in harmony with diachronic stability
Chinese is an intriguing case of syntactic stability. Since the earliest available documents (13th c. BC) up to today, it has displayed SVO order in combination with a head final NP as well as – in subsequent stages – other phenomena said to be typical of SOV languages, such as postpositions (since 1st c. BC) and a head-final CP (since 5th c. BC). This contradicts the received wisdom in the literature that highly ‘disharmonic’ stages are unstable…
Existential and locative constructions in Mandarin Chinese
Despite previous studies (cf. among others Huang 1987. Existential sentences in Chinese and (in)definiteness. In Eric J. Reuland & Alice G.B. Ter Meulen (eds.), The representation of (In)definiteness , 226–253. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press; Li, Yen-Hui Audrey. 1990. Order and constituency in Mandarin Chinese . Dordrecht: Kluwer; Li, Yen-Hui Audrey. 1998. Two types of existential sentences. Illinois Papers in Linguistics 26. 175–191; Pan, Haihua. 1…
Clitic pronouns in Archaic Chinese
This article provides evidence for the so far neglected existence of two clitic pronouns, yǐ 以 and yǔ 與, in Archaic Chinese (10th c. – 3rd c. BC) in immediately verb-adjacent position: ‘ yǐ/yǔ -V’. While yǔ only encodes the comitative/associative, yǐ encodes all kinds of (argument and adjunct) roles, depending on the semantics of the verb involved. We argue that the clitic pronouns yǐ and yǔ can neither be analysed as stranded prepositions left b…
Nobody there? On the non-existence of nobody in Mandarin Chinese and related issues
The present article demonstrates how the so far unchallenged misanalysis within Chinese linguistics of a few, but central, data points has led to a distorted picture biasing, inter alia , the general typology of wh -in-situ languages as well as the crosslinguistic study of Quantifier Phrases. This is the case for méi yǒu rén ‘not exist person’, hěnshǎo yǒu rén ‘rarely exist person’, and zhǐ yǒu DP ‘only exist DP’, which are not nominal projection…
De-constructing small clauses
Taking up an early observation by Y.-H. Audrey Li (1985) stating the systematic lack of Chinese equivalents for English small clauses (SC) with nominal predicates (They elected John president), this article demonstrates that Chinese lacks SCs altogether. This holds independently of the approach adopted, be it the analysis of SCs as lexical projections with different category labels (cf. Stowell 1981, Matushansky 2019) or the uniform analysis of S…
SVCs in disguise
The so-called directional verb compounds or directional constructions in Mandarin Chinese, ‘V1displacement V2direction lái (come)/ qù (go)’, e.g. bān chū lái ‘transport exit come’ = ‘bring out (towards the speaker)’ are not compounds, but genuine object sharing serial verb constructions in Collins’ (1997) sense. The different positions of the shared internal argument are derived by raising one, two or three verbs to v, each verb adjoining to v as…
Sentence-final particles in Mandarin Chinese
Sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Mandarin Chinese realize the heads of three projections in the rigidly ordered head-final CP ‘Low CP
“It’s in my blood. It’s in my spirit. It’s in my ancestry”
This article illustrates perspectives on Métis cultural identity, belonging, and positionality, within the context of wellness. As authors, we have the privilege of sharing stories from 24 Métis women, Two-Spirit, and gender diverse people—living or accessing services on the unceded territory of the Lək’ w əŋən-speaking peoples (in so-called Victoria, British Columbia). Their stories illustrate personal and intergenerational journeys of reclaimin…
Making some progress on the progressive aspect zài in Mandarin Chinese
Taking into account data hitherto neglected, this article examines the progressive aspect zài 在 in Mandarin Chinese and related issues. We argue in favour of the constituency [AspP zài 在 [V- zhe 着]] and demonstrate important syntactic and semantic differences between the progressive aspect zài 在 and the durative aspect - zhe 着 . Importantly, unlike ‘ zài 在 V’, ‘V- zhe 着’ is only acceptable as the sole predicate in a root sentence when interpretab…
Final-over-Final Condition
The Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC) (Sheehan, Biberauer, Roberts, and Holmberg 2017) purports to be a universal word order constraint. In this article, we challenge this claim and demonstrate that the FOFC is of a statistical nature: It is a relativized ̧ non-absolute version of cross-categorial harmony, where only a head-final projection dominating a head-initial projection is ruled out among the disharmonic configurations displaying different…
I’m still not over feeling so isolated”
Improving access to culturally safe health and social services by incorporating the experiences and expertise of Métis women, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse people is crucial to mitigating the disproportional negative impacts of the pandemic and improving overall health outcomes within Métis communities across Canada
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