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Prosodic Constraints on the Syntax of Mandarin A-NOT-A Questions.

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Title/Author:	Prosodic Constraints on the Syntax of Mandarin A-NOT-A Questions./
Author:	Wang, Chi.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	209 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-08A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
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ISBN:	9780438851962

Prosodic Constraints on the Syntax of Mandarin A-NOT-A Questions.
Wang, Chi.

Prosodic Constraints on the Syntax of Mandarin A-NOT-A Questions. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 209 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

It is argued that prosody, the nuclear stress assignment rule, constrains the syntax of Mandarin A-NOT-A questions, which applies to its three subcategories: AB-NOT-AB, AB-NOT-A and A-NOT-AB. Due to Government-based Nuclear Stress Rule (G-NSR) and the Nuclear Stress-Intonation Rule (NSIR), the basic prosodic pattern of A-NOT-A questions is shaped as follows: the A-NOT-A part stands as a single one intonation phrase as a whole with no intonation breaks in between; only one stress is allowed at the left or right edge of A-NOT-A, depending on the syntactic structure of its subcategories. Such a G-NSR induced prosody not only constrains the syntax of A-NOT-A by prosodic filtering and activation synchronically, but also determines its diachronic development and crosslinguistic distribution. Firstly, prosody constrains the syntax of A-NOT-A by filtering. Since the A-NOT-A part has to be one whole intonation phrase with no inter-medial intonation breaks, and with only one stress allowed on its edge, any syntactic structures will be filtered out as prosodically illegitimate ones when failing to meet the above prosodic condition. Besides, the three members of A-NOT-A questions behave differently in terms of prosodic filtering, attributed to different interactions between prosody and syntax of the specific subcategories. The filtering function of G-NSR receives support from 'mei (every) + NP' and other phenomena. Secondly, prosody influences the syntax of A-NOT-A by activation. If the syntactic structure mismatches with the prosodic pattern, prosody will activate syntax to employ whatever operations available to resolve such a conflict. Specifically, for AB-NOT-A and VP-NEG questions, the conflict between syntax and prosody is incurred by the coordinated VP configuration and an extra constituent beyond the lower edge of Nuclear Stress domain (VP). Consequently, head movement is activated to move NOT-A (in AB-NOT-A) and NEG (in VP-NEG) out of NS domain to the left periphery (CP domain). Moreover, comparison with English VP-OR-NOT questions reveals that the typological difference in nuclear stress rule between Chinese and English leads to the presence or absence of head movement in the above two languages. Finally, the prosodic constraints on A-NOT-A syntax are evidenced both diachronically and typologically. The prosodic pattern entails that G-NSR serves as a necessary condition for the emergence of Mandarin-type A-NOT-A questions. Diachronically, A-NOT-A questions will emerge only when G-NSR begins to exist, explaining the occurrence of mono-clausal A-NOT-A questions after Han dynasty, when G-NSR started to function in Chinese. Furthermore, the above analysis is also corroborated by the chronological differences among the A-NOT-A subcategories, caused by the interactions between prosody and syntax. Typologically, G-NSR is a necessary condition for any language attested with A-NOT-A questions, which means that languages with such interrogatives must have their nuclear stress assigned by G-NSR. This correlation is illustrated by G-NSR induced syntactic behaviors in certain Tibeto- Burman languages and Miao-Yao languages, which are exemplified by phenomena like distribution of post-verbal prosodically heavy constituents.

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