Chinese tag questions: the CP/DP pro-form analysis

Author:

Chiu Liching Livy1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Graduate Program of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan University , Taipei , Taiwan

Abstract

Abstract This paper investigates the behaviors of tag questions in Chinese and proposes a unifying analysis involving empty CP/DP pro-forms and predication. It is found that there are universally two types of Tag questions – (i) the invariable type and (ii) the (modal) verbal type, which correspond to the question-types in Chinese syntax. Previous research by Culivocer (1992. English tag questions in Universal Grammar. Lingua 88. 193–226) analyzed English tag questions as a pro-IP structure that is bound by a previous sentence. However, in Chinese, two types of tag questions include both A-not-A form and particle form. Furthermore, both the two kinds of tag questions display syntactic predication between the tag and an empty subject pro. An abbreviated “yes-no question” is attached to empty CP/DP constituents in these constructions.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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