The Intervention Effect in Late Archaic Chinese and Modern Mandarin

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Aiqing Wang
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Abstract I investigate the Intervention Effect in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC) and modern Mandarin. In LAC, negation displays the Intervention Effect on wh-phrases. There are two types of wh-items that are subject to the Intervention Effect triggered by negation, namely, wh-arguments and wh-adverbials that are supposed to move to a lower focus position below the negation; and those that have the option to stay in situ. Due to the intervening negative barrier, these c-commanded wh-phrases have to rise to a higher focus position above the negation so as to circumvent the Intervention Effect. I propose that the Intervention Effect in LAC is a consequence of Q-binding as a feature movement of [wh], interacting with movement into the hierarchy of clause-internal positions driven by [Topic] or [Focus] features. By contrast, focus or quantificational phrases do not display the Intervention Effect in LAC. In modern Mandarin, focus phrases, but not negation or quantified structures, impose the Intervention Effect on wh-items; negation, but not focus phrases or quantified structures, imposes the Intervention Effect on temporal wh-adverbials. I also propound three obligatory requirements for the Intervention Effect to take place in LAC, namely, interrogativity of wh-items, the possibility of feature wh-movement, and a hierarchy of clausal positions. Although the Intervention Effect in LAC and modern Mandarin are triggered by different barriers, it always needs to meet the three requirements. Data from both LAC and Mandarin justify previous analyses regarding feature movement.
古代晚期汉语与现代汉语的干预作用
摘要我研究了古代晚期汉语和现代汉语的干预效应。在LAC中,否定表现出对wh短语的干预作用。有两种类型的wh项目受到否定触发的干预效应,即wh论点和wh状语,它们被认为移动到否定下方的较低焦点位置;以及那些可以选择留在原地的人。由于负性障碍的介入,这些c命令wh短语必须上升到否定之上的更高的焦点位置,以规避干预效应。我认为,LAC中的干预效应是Q绑定作为[wh]的一种特征运动的结果,与[主题]或[焦点]特征驱动的从句内部位置层次的运动相互作用。相比之下,焦点短语或定量短语在LAC中没有显示出干预效果。在现代汉语中,焦点短语而不是否定或量化结构对wh项施加了干预效应;否定,而不是焦点短语或量化结构,对时态wh状语施加了干预作用。我还提出了在LAC中发生干预效应的三个强制性要求,即wh项目的疑问性、特征wh运动的可能性和从句位置的层次性。LAC和现代汉语的干预效应虽然是由不同的障碍触发的,但始终需要满足这三个要求。LAC和普通话的数据证明了之前关于特征运动的分析是正确的。
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Studies in Chinese Linguistics
Studies in Chinese Linguistics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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0.50
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3
审稿时长
46 weeks
期刊介绍: STUDIES IN CHINESE LINGUISTICS is an international academic journal devoted to comparative study of Chinese language and linguistics and a platform for research of comparative linguistics and dialectal grammar under a comparative approach. We especially welcome synchronic or diachronic comparative works on any aspects of the syntax, semantics, and morphology among Chinese dialects or between a Chinese language/dialect and any languages that contribute to theoretical linguistics or have significant theoretical implications. The journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges.
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