Formal Aspects of Chinese Grammar

This book is a collection of seven articles published in the past decade by the author. These articles are concerned with various issues including possessor raising, null subject, null object, pied-piping in logical form, focus marker, question formation, and adverbial reflexive. Each article has made a contribution to its topic. More importantly, these seven articles, taken as a whole, also constitute a window through which readers may look at the issues from a formal syntactic perspective and get a sense as how works have been conducted in the framework concerned, how arguments have been constructed, and how justifications have been provided in the field.

Contents:

• Possessor Raising in Chinese and Korean
• Two Types of Pre-Verbal Reflexives in Chinese
• The Positioning of Chinese Focus Marker SHI and Pied-Piping in Logical Form
• Two Types of Null Subject Languages
• Null Object and Its Syntactic Derivation
• The Interaction of Grammatical Features "Question" and "Focus"
• Focus-Marking in Chinese and Malay

Readership: Senior undergraduate students, graduate students pursuing master's or doctoral degrees, university lecturers and language-related professionals.
Key Features:

• A detailed analysis of a carefully selected group of important conceptions and phenomena in Chinese grammar
• All the works have been conducted in one of the mainstream frameworks of linguistic theory
• It has been done from a comparative perspective, focusing on the Chinese language and referring to comparable languages including English, Japanese, Korean, and Malay