- Title
- Mandarin DP1-he-DP2 in the subject position
- Creator
- Han, Weifeng; Shi, Dingxu
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/189489
- Identifier
- vital:17448
- Identifier
- ISSN:1336-782X (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Recent studies claim that, syntactically, he in DP1-he-DP2 can only be analyzed as a conjunction or as a preposition, but not both, in the subject position in Mandarin. This paper presents both empirical and theoretical arguments against such singular analyses of he. Drawn upon cross-linguistic evidence, we argue that he is open to both a conjunction and a proposition analyses. Under the Merge theory, it is argued that the prepositional phrase (PP) is derived through only EXTERNAL MERGE (EM), while the conjunction phrase (&P) is yielded through EM and then INTERNAL MERGE (IM). Therefore, PP and &P undergo different processes of labelling. The Phase Impenetrability Condition helps explain the topicalization and focus marking issues by the singular analysis of he as a preposition only. This paper illustrates how the same lexical item of he is used for both the conjunction and the comitative structures in Mandarin, and how both structures differ syntactically under the Merge theory. © 2022 Slovak Association for the Study of English. All rights reserved.
- Publisher
- Slovak Association for the Study of English
- Relation
- SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics Vol. 19, no. 1 (2022), p. 43-62
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 Slovak Association for the Study of English
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 4704 Linguistics; Conjunction; He; Mandarin; Merge; Preposition
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