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| 說明 | 1 online resource (61 pages) |
| 文字 | text |
| 無媒介 | computer |
| 成冊 | online resource |
| 附註 | Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04 |
| Advisor: Torrence, William Harold, Jr |
| Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2019 |
| Includes bibliographical references |
| One fundamental question in syntax is how to understand the observed universality and diversity of syntactic structures across different languages. This paper addresses this question by focusing on yes-no question formation in two Chinese dialects spoken in Wuhu and Nanjing. Based on novel data and diagnostics, which involve a systematic comparison of the formal properties of different types of yes-no questions in Wuhu and Nanjing, this paper proposes a uniform analysis to account for both the uniformity and variation of Wuhu and Nanjing yes-no questions. This proposal improves on existing approaches to yes-no question formation by distinguishing between clause-internal question particles and A-not-A strings, and showing that what undergoes movement in Wuhu and Nanjing yes-no questions is the question operator instead of the polarity variable |
| Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2020 |
| Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| 主題 | Linguistics |
| Asian studies |
| Chinese dialects |
| Comparative syntax |
| Polarity variable |
| Question particles |
| Yes-no question |
| Syntax |
| Electronic books. |
| 0290 |
| 0342 |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9781085678889 |
