Essays on the Representational and Derivational Nature of Grammar: The Diversity of Wh-Constructions

By Joseph Aoun, Yen-Hui Li. 2003

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Language and Linguistics

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The Interpretability Hypothesis: evidence from wh-interrogatives in second language acquisition (2007, methodology): “The resumptive strategy is viewed as 5See also Aoun and Li (2003) for a differentiation between last resort resumptive pronouns and ones that are the result of movement and turned into variables at LF. the overt manifestation of agreement features on T and light v. Resumptive subject-verb agreement…”
The Semantic Classification of Adjectives. A View from Syntax. (2014, background): “If Aoun and Li (2003, chapter 5, note 15) are right in attributing this property of wèi to its prefixal nature this might mean that only direct modification adjectives can be prefixes in Modern Chinese.”
Interpretation of English multiple wh-questions by Japanese speakers: a missing uninterpretable feature account (2006, methodology): “There have been various formulations of this principle: e.g. Attract Closest or the Minimal Link Condition (Chomsky, 1995) and the Minimal Match Condition (Aoun & Li, 2003).”
Adjectival modification in Mandarin Chinese and related issues (2005, background): “Aoun and Li (2003: 148¤.) independently arrive at the same conclusion, like us invoking nonpredicate adjectives in attributive position as main evidence. Lim (2001) equally distinguishes between relative clauses and the modification structure with de, mainly based on interpretation di¤erences. Also ”
Mandarin hen and Universal Markedness in gradable adjectives (2012, background): “Following Aoun and Li (2003), I assume that relative clauses in Mandarin are created via adjunction to NP, and following Zhang (2007), I assume that when the relative clause appears to the left of the numeral+classifier word group, this is the result of focus-driven movement.”
Some thoughts on the contrastive analysis of features in second language acquisition (2009, background): “Following S. Kim (1989), Nishigauchi (1990) and Aoun and Li (2003), it is assumed that Korean ‘wh’ words are variables that do not have an inherent wh-operator as English wh-words do.”