New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax by Paul Waltraud

Author:Paul, Waltraud [Paul, Waltraud]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2014-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

This case cannot be accommodated by the movement scenario, either, because the latter crucially presupposes a TP-internal base position from which the PP in question has raised. As a result, the PP must have been base-generated in TopP.

In the same vein, it is important to note the strong preference for PostPs to occur in TopP when their complement is a clause with an overt subject.

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This again casts doubt on extraction from a sentence-internal position as the only derivation possibility for topic AdPs.

To conclude, an adjunct AdP in topic position involves an in situ topic without any empty pronoun in the TP. This challenges not only Y.-H. Audrey Li’s (2000) view, but also the classification of topics by Badan (2007) and by Del Gobbo and Badan (2010), where PPs are likewise automatically derived by movement. More precisely, they are identified as cases of left dislocation, an analysis going back to Benincà & Poletto (2004). (Note that neither Y.-H. Audrey Li [2000] nor Del Gobbo and Badan [2010] take into consideration PostPs.).

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