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The Processing of Parasitic Gaps in Mandarin Chinese.

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Title/Author:	The Processing of Parasitic Gaps in Mandarin Chinese./
Author:	Yan, Le.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	172 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-02A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10906732
ISBN:	9780438167353

The Processing of Parasitic Gaps in Mandarin Chinese.
Yan, Le.

The Processing of Parasitic Gaps in Mandarin Chinese. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 172 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2017.

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Parasitic gaps or PGs are gaps in an island that depend on the presence of a real gap or RG. My dissertation primarily investigates Mandarin PG's active role in predicting and positing the RG and in driving the PG-RG-filler dependency formation without the filler playing an active role. We hypothesize that Mandarin PGs actively postulate and predict the RG because the PG requires the presence of the RG to be grammatical, and that such postulation and prediction of the RG occurs very early, even before the gaps' filler is encountered. An extended research question is whether Mandarin parasitic gaps can appear in both object and subject positions, in contrast with English PGs that have been claimed to occur only in the object position. We conducted two grammaticality judgment experiments, a plausibility experiment, an interpretation experiment, and a self-paced reading experiment. The results support the dependency between the parasitic gap and the real gap, and thus the existence of parasitic gaps in Mandarin Chinese, in both object and subject positions. The results also reveal that the PG's requirement of the RG is respected during online processing. However, the results are compatible with, but not unambiguously confirm, the active role of Mandarin parasitic gaps in postulating and predicting the occurrence of the real gap and in driving the online formation of the entire PG-RG-filler dependencies. More research is needed to unambiguously confirm such.

ISBN: 9780438167353Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Linguistics.
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Mandarin Chinese

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