@inbook {4694, title = {What you see is what you get: Chinese sentence-final particles as head-final complementisers}, booktitle = {Discourse Particles {\textendash} Formal Approaches to their Syntax and Semantics}, series = {Linguistische Arbeiten}, number = {564}, year = {2016}, pages = {49-77}, publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton}, organization = {De Gruyter Mouton}, edition = {Josef Bayer and Volker Struckmeier}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {978-3-11-049715-1}, doi = {10.1515/9783110497151-003}, author = {Pan, Victor Junnan and Paul, Waltraud} } @article {4560, title = {Why Chinese SFPs are neither optional nor disjunctors}, journal = {Lingua}, volume = {170}, year = {2016}, month = {01/2016}, pages = {23-34}, chapter = {23}, abstract = {

In a recent paper,\ Biberauer et al. (2014b)\ claim that the Chinese sentence-final particles (SFPs)\ ne\ and\ ma\ only \“double\” the information encoded elsewhere in the sentence and are to be analyzed as \“acategorial\” conjunctions. This contrasts with the current analysis of, e.g.\ ma\ as an interrogative force head. The present article provides evidence in favour of the SFPs\ ma\ and\ ne\ as C-elements and challenges some of the preconceived ideas commonly encountered in the literature. Within the head-final split CP proposed for Chinese \‘Low C\ \<\ Force\ \<\ Attitude\’,\ ma\ instantiates a Force head, whereas\ ne\ realizes the discourse-related AttitudeP, not a\ wh-question typing particle (paceLisa L.-S. Cheng\&$\#$39;s, 1991). Furthermore, evidence is provided to show that the surface sentence-final position of SFPs in Chinese must be taken at face value.

}, keywords = {Mandarin Chinese; Sentence-final particles (SFPs); Head-final split CP; Yes/no questions; Final over Final Constraint (FOFC)}, issn = {0024-3841}, doi = {10.1016/j.lingua.2015.10.005}, author = {Pan, Victor Junnan and Paul, Waltraud} } @conference {4480, title = {Wh-ex-situ and Information Structure in Chinese}, year = {2015}, address = {CRLAO, INALCO}, author = {Pan, Victor Junnan} } @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} } @conference {873, title = {When wh-questions interact with information structure}, year = {2012}, month = {03/2012}, address = {Frankfurt, Allemagne, 7-9 March}, author = {Pan, Victor Junnan} } @conference {896, title = {Wh-ex-situ : Mapping Between Information Structure and Split CP}, year = {2010}, address = {City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong}, author = {Pan, Victor Junnan} } @conference {897, title = {Wh-fronting in Chinese}, year = {2009}, address = {CRLAO, EHESS, Paris, France}, author = {Pan, Victor Junnan} } @conference {878, title = {Wh-in-situ et questions rh{\'e}torique en chinois mandarin}, year = {2008}, address = {Paris, France}, author = {Pan, Victor Junnan} } @conference {1048, title = {Wh-topicalization and wh-in-situ in Mandarin Chinese}, year = {2006}, address = {CRLAO, EHESS, Paris, France}, keywords = {C-COM}, author = {Pan, Victor Junnan} } @conference {1051, title = {Wh-in-situ in Mandarin Chinese : an alternative view}, year = {2005}, address = {l{\textquoteright}Universit{\'e} de Leiden, Leiden, Pays bas.}, keywords = {C-COM}, author = {Pan, Victor Junnan and Boucher, Paul} }