Against the Low Periphery as Phrase Markers

Two Types of Contrastive Dislocations in Mandarin Chinese

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ID21398771
AuthorsYuyun Iris Wang (0000-0003-3751-8703, Department of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language Ming Chuan University 5 De Ming Rd. Guishan Dist. Taoyuan 333 Taiwan), Wei-Wen Roger Liao (0000-0002-2338-5607, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica), Wei‐wen Roger Liao (Institute of Linguistics Academia Sinica 128, Sec. 2, Academia Rd. Taipei 115 Taiwan)
Year2021
Volume75
Issue1
Pages97-127
Publication date2021-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0039-3193 • E-ISSN: 1467-9582
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/stul.12151
OpenAlexW3110238372
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited56

We argue that the contrastive dislocation to the low peripheral position in Mandarin Chinese does not target phrase markers, like TopicP or FocusP, contra recent proposals that attempt to extend the cartographic theory to the low IP ‐area. We argue that such dislocations are best analyzed as PF movements, which display the total reconstruction effect and do not affect the LF interface. We show that the contrastive dislocation to the low periphery in Mandarin Chinese is subject to the same PF licensing condition found in the Object Shift construction in Scandinavian. Our analysis thus claims that the low periphery is not a part of the narrow syntax (unlike the left periphery). The templatic nature of the low periphery explains why it is more restricted across languages and is prone to linguistic variation

Affect (linguistics) · Astrophysics · Contrastive analysis · Dislocation · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Object (grammar) · Phrase · Physics · Subject (documents) · Syntax · Variation (astronomy) · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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