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Locative Inversion in Mandarin Chinese

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Yanfeng Qu
Yanfeng Qu*
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University of British Columbia
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Locative inversion is a common linguistic phenomenon that has been studied by linguists of various theoretical backgrounds (see, among others, Bresnan 1990, Demuth 1990, Hoekstra and Mulder 1990, and Rochemont and Culicover 1990). This paper is an attempt to analyse such a phenomenon in Mandarin Chinese within the framework of Government and Binding (GB) Theory. Its purpose is twofold: to investigate the syntactic properties of this particular construction, and to illustrate the relevance of Lexical Conceptual Structure (LCS) to syntactic analyses within the GB paradigm.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , September 1993 , pp. 305 - 330
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1993

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