Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Chinese Wh-Constructions

1.2 The Theoretical Background

1.3 Outline of the Book

Chapter 2 Two Theories of Licensing Wh-in-Situ

2.1 The Quantificational Property of Wh-Phrases

2.2 Movement Approach

2.2.1 QR

2.2.2 Arguments for Raising Wh-in-Situ at LF

2.2.3 Comments

2.3 Non-Movement Approach

2.3.1 Problems of Raising Analysis at LF within MP

2.3.2 Clausal Typing Hypothesis

2.3.3 Incorporating Unselective Binding into MP

2.3.4 Classification of Wh-Phrases

2.4 Summary

Chapter 3 Intervention Effects

3.1 Wh-Nouns and Intervention Effects

3.1.1 Quantifier Intervention Effects

3.1.2 Focus Intervention Effects

3.1.3 Common Properties between the Two Kinds of Interveners

3.2 Wh-Adverbs and Intervention Effects

3.2.1 Weishenme“why”

3.2.2 Zenmeyang“how”,Shenmeshihou“When”and Zainali“Where”

3.3 Summary

Chapter 4 Interaction between a Wh-Phrase and a Strong QP

4.1 Scope Ambiguity between a Wh-Noun and a Universal Quantifier

4.1.1 Analysis of English Data

4.1.2 A Unified Account for English and Chinese Data

4.1.3 LF-Chain Based Scope Principle

4.2 Scope Ambiguity between Wh-Phrases and Definite DPs

4.2.1 A Quantificational Account of Definite DPs

4.2.2 Interaction between a Wh-Noun and a Definite DP

4.3 Interaction between a Wh-Adjunct and a Strong QP

4.4 Concluding Remarks and Future Research

Chapter 5 Island Effects Revisited

5.1 Island Effects of English Wh-Phrases

5.1.1 GB Accounts

5.1.2 MP Accounts

5.2 Various Accounts for Island Effects of Chinese Wh-Phrases

5.2.1 Asymmetry between Wh-Arguments and Wh-Adjuncts

5.2.2 Asymmetry between Wh-Nouns and Wh-Adverbs

5.2.3 Summary

5.3 A Tentative Solution

5.4 Summary

Chapter 6 Against Two Ways of Scope Taking

6.1 Against Non-Movement Approach

6.1.1 Against Clausal Typing Hypothesis

6.1.2 Against Unselective Binding

6.2 Against Raising Quantifiers without QR

6.3 Future Research

Chapter 7 Wh-Focalization

7.1 Three Possible Approaches

7.1.1 Wh-Movement

7.1.2 Wh-Scrambling

7.1.3 Wh-Topicalization

7.2 Wh-Focalization

7.2.1 Focus：the Definition,the Classification and Devices

7.2.2 A Wh-Noun as a Focus

7.2.3 Projecting a Focus

7.3 Syntactic Movement of Other Wh-Phrases

Chapter 8 The Semantic Association of Dou“All”with Wh-Nouns and Its Syntactic Realization

8.1 A Basic Overview of Dou

8.2 The Semantic Analysis of Dou

8.2.1 Previous Analyses of Dou

8.2.2 Predicate-Related Distributor

8.3 Wh-Nouns+Dou

8.3.1 The Dual Status of Dou

8.3.2 Dou as a Distributor

8.4 The Syntactic Status of Dou

8.5 Dou+Wh-Nouns

8.5.1 The Syntactic Distribution of R-dou

8.5.2 The Semantic Properties of R-dou

8.6 Against Binding Approach of Dou

8.7 Summary

Chapter 9 On the Non-interrogative Use of Chinese Wh-phrases

9.1 Wh-phrases in Simple Sentences

9.2 Wh-question as a Syntactic Component of a Complex Sentence

9.3 Non-interrogative Function of Questions

9.4 Summary

Chapter 10 Conclusions and Theoretical Implications

10.1 Concluding Remarks

10.2 Theoretical Issues of LF-Movement

10.3 Classification of QPs

10.4 Future Research

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