A note on Fukui’s note
This commentary relates Fukui’s (2015) note on weak vs. strong generation to two aspects of quantification in Chinese: quantifier scope and the syntactic licensing conditions of noninterrogative wh-expressions. It is shown that the phenomena under discussion echo Fukui’s (2015) view that only strong...
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| description | This commentary relates Fukui’s (2015) note on weak vs. strong generation to two aspects of quantification in Chinese: quantifier scope and the syntactic licensing conditions of noninterrogative wh-expressions. It is shown that the phenomena under discussion echo Fukui’s (2015) view that only strong generation allows for a deeper understanding of natural language and that dependencies are to be distinguished structurally. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ba867917e74e4458a56b24459c7d43552022-12-22T00:07:19ZengSciendoStudies in Chinese Linguistics1017-12742015-12-01362698010.1515/scl-2015-0005scl-2015-0005A note on Fukui’s noteTsai Cheng-Yu Edwin0Harvard University, Department of Linguistics, Boylston Hall 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA 02138 USAThis commentary relates Fukui’s (2015) note on weak vs. strong generation to two aspects of quantification in Chinese: quantifier scope and the syntactic licensing conditions of noninterrogative wh-expressions. It is shown that the phenomena under discussion echo Fukui’s (2015) view that only strong generation allows for a deeper understanding of natural language and that dependencies are to be distinguished structurally.https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2015-0005strong generationdependencychinese quantificationnoninterrogative wh-phrases強性生成依存關係漢語量化結構非疑問用法之疑問詞 |
| spellingShingle | Tsai Cheng-Yu Edwin A note on Fukui’s note Studies in Chinese Linguistics strong generation dependency chinese quantification noninterrogative wh-phrases 強性生成 依存關係 漢語量化結構 非疑問用法之疑問詞 |
| title | A note on Fukui’s note |
| title_full | A note on Fukui’s note |
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| title_short | A note on Fukui’s note |
| title_sort | note on fukui s note |
| topic | strong generation dependency chinese quantification noninterrogative wh-phrases 強性生成 依存關係 漢語量化結構 非疑問用法之疑問詞 |
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