By Victor Junnan Pan

This publication offers a minimalist account for the derivation of other kinds of A -dependencies mediated by means of gaps and resumptive pronouns in Mandarin chinese language. Adopting a comparative technique, this learn not just bargains a promising research of resumption in Minimalist application but in addition improves the final figuring out of resumptivity crosslinguistically. "

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Relatives or dislocation structures) in which such an extended form appears. A reduced form [D-ϕ] never gives rise to any of the reconstruction effects or any of the distributive readings. (v) Different types of pronouns possess different internal structures. e. inserted) on [Spec, TP] to satisfy the requirement of EPP.   Resumptivity: an overview (a) (b) Certain A'-bound elements possess only one specific form as their internal structures, for instance, gaps and the pronoun qi (3rd person) only have the extended form as their internal structures.

In cases where a resumptive construction gives rise to reconstruction effects, this observation then constitutes an argument in favor of the analyses that support the idea that resumptive dependencies are derived by movement. However, as I will argue in Chapter 3 for Chinese, it is possible to disassociate reconstruction effects from the notion of movement. The presence of a copy on the variable site in an A'-dependency is enough to trigger reconstruction effects and this point has been extensively discussed in Rouveret (2002) and Guilliot (2006).

1) a. Wh-island (island created by indirect wh-questions) * Whoj do you wonder [CP wheni John will meet tj ti]? b. * Quij penses-tu [CP quandi Jean rencontrera tj ti]? ’) (2) a. Complex-NP created by relative clauses * Whoj do you like [DP the books [CP that [TP tj wrote]]]? b. * Quij who aimes-tu like-you [DP les livres [CP que the books [TP tj that a has écrits]]]? ’) (3) a. Complex-NP created by complement clauses of noun * Whoj did you hear [DP the rumor [CP that [TP Mary insulted tj yesterday in a meeting]]]?

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