Abstract
AbstractThis chapter examines a peculiar case of force/attitude embedding, i.e., the non-canonical wh-construals in Chinese and Vietnamese subordinate clauses, and offers a selection-truncation analysis along the line of the Cartographic Approach. This move provides a plausible account of the embeddability of disapproval/whining wh-construals in Mandarin Chinese, which in turn reveals that the root-subordinate asymmetry is not as clear-cut as previously thought, where prominent features such as causality and mirativity play an important role across-the-board. Furthermore, substantial support has been drawn from Vietnamese and Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) from the vantage point of comparative syntax. This line of research may well shed new light on the nature of syntax-pragmatics mapping and advance our understanding of how s-selection and c-selection work together to license syntactic complementation.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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