This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. It includes three general topics: (a) questions, indefinites and quantification, (b) anaphora, (c) lexical structure and the syntax of events.

C.-T. James Huang, a Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University, is the preeminent specialist on the syntax and semantics of Chinese.

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Introduction

Part I: Questions, Indefinites and quantification

1. Move wh in a language without wh-movement
2. LF, ECP, and non-vacuous quantification
3. Existential sentences in Chinese and (in)definiteness
4. The syntax of wh-in-situ
5. Modularity and Chinese A-not-A questions
6. Logical Form
7. Two types of donkey sentences
8. Syntax of the hell

Part II: anaphora and BINDING

9. A note on binding theory
10. On the distribution and reference of empty pronouns
11. Reconstruction and the structure of VP
12. Logophoricity, attitudes, and ziji at the interface

Part III: Lexical Structure and Events

13. On lexical structure and syntactic projection
14. Resultatives and unaccusatives

Notes

Bibliography

Index