@conference {4091, title = {Wh-ex-situ and the Left Periphery in Mandarin Chinese}, year = {2014}, month = {04/2014}, address = {Rome, Italie}, keywords = {left periphery, Mandarin Chinese, wh-ex-situ}, author = {Pan, Victor Junnan} } @article {4344, title = {Wh-ex-situ in Mandarin Chinese: Mapping Between Information Structure and Split CP}, journal = {Linguistic Analysis}, volume = {39}, year = {2014}, month = {04/2015}, pages = {413}, chapter = {371}, abstract = {

This paper examines the so-called wh-ex-situ phenomenon in Mandarin Chinese. It shows that there are four different types of wh-ex-situ in the left-periphery of Mandarin: Type I: extracted wh-topic, Type II: extracted wh-focus, Type III: base-generated wh-topic and Type IV: base-generated wh-focus. This differs from preceding accounts which analyze all ex-situ wh-phrases either as topics (cf. Tang 1988, Wu 1999) or as foci (cf. Cheung 2008, 2014). These four types display different syntactic and semantic properties. While wh-topics (extracted and base-generated) must be D-linked and obey locality constraints as well as the \“episodic eventuality\” constraint (cf. Zhang 2002), ex-situ wh-foci do not. However, the four types all satisfy general semantic constraints on interrogatives. Within the split-CP architecture in Chinese, ex-situ wh-topics and ex-situ wh-foci occupy different positions, TopP being higher than FocP.\ 

}, keywords = {cleft focus, left periphery, Mandarin Chinese, topicalization, wh-ex-situ}, author = {Pan, Victor Junnan} }