List of abbreviations
Resumptivity : an overview
Introduction
Resumptivity
Resumptive pronouns
Two types of resumptive pronouns
Two different points of view
Syntactic level : to move, or not to move, that is the question!
Period of GB
Period of MP
Semantic level : to move, or not to move, that is still the question!
Main proposals in this study
Against the macro : variation hypothesis
Against the "spelled out traces" analysis
Main proposals
Organization of the argumentation
Syntactic derivation : two types of A'-dependencies
Introduction
Distribution of resumptive pronouns in relatives and in dislocation structures
Islands
Relatives
Dislocation structures
Summary
Crossover effects
Weak crossover effects
Relatives
Dislocation structures
Strong crossover effect
Relatives
Dislocation structures
Summary
Summary
Analyses
In the framework of government and binding theory
In the minimalist program
Match, agree and move
Deriving resumptive constructions by agree
Adger & Ramchand (2001, 2005)
Rouveret (2002, 2008, to appear)
Resumption in Chinese
Island effects
Crossover effects
Resumptive distocationstructures
Differences between relatives and dislocation structures
Locality
Summary
Conclusion
Reconstruction and internal structures of resumptive pronouns
Introduction
Reconstruction effects and movement
Two types of reconstruction effects
Reconstruction of anaphoric binding
Reconstruction of the scope of a quantifier
Reconstruction effects and movement
Two types of resumptivities
Two generalizations of Aoun et al. (2001)
Against the generalizations of Aoun et al. (2001)
Against the first generalization of Aoun et al. : absence of island
Against the second generalization of Aoun et al. : presence of islands
Conclusion
Reconstruction effects and internal structures of resumptive pronouns
Two types of resumptive pronouns : strong pronouns, epithets and weak pronouns
Two types of copies : indefinite and definite (Guilliot 2006)
Two internal structures of resumptive pronouns : Rouveret (1994, 2002, 2008, to appear)
Choice of internal structure of a resumptive pronoun
Summary
Reconstruction effects in Chinese
Reconstruction and quantifier scope
Relatives
Dislocation structures
Summary
Possibility to take a quantificational antecedent
Relatives
Dislocation structures
Summary
Reconstruction of anaphoric binding
Relatives
Dislocation structures
Summary
Condition C effects under reconstruction
Relatives
Dislocation structures
Summary
Summary
Analysis
Correlation between types of syntactic constructions and forms of resumptives
Interaction of different components of grammar
Argument : two types of pronouns in Chinese
Distribution of the pronoun qi
Reconstruction of a quantifier scope
Possibility to take a quantificational antecedent
Anaphoric binding reconstruction
Condition C effects under reconstruction
Summary
Differences between ta and qi
Conclusion
A mysterious problem is solved!
Conclusion
Specificity effects
Introduction
Derive individual reading and distributive reading
Two types of specificities
Non-specific reading (de dicto) vs. specific reading (de re)
Individual reading vs. pair-list reading
Resumptivlty and semantic readings
Sharvit (1999)
Guilliot (2006, 2011)
Malkawi (2009) : competition of the readings
Rouveret (2002, 2008, to appear)
General distribution of different readings in Chinese
Individual readings : non-specific (de dicto) vs. specific (de re)
Relatives
Dislocation structures
Distributive readings : natural function vs. pair-list
Relatives
Dislocation structures
Resumptive pronouns
Intrusive pronouns
Summary
Analysis
Conclusion
Concluding remarks
Syntactic level
Semantic level
Architecture of resumptivity
Interaction of different factors involved in the derivation of an A'- dependency
Two predictions
What Chinese tells us about resumptivity
Appendix : General distribution of the resumptive pronouns in Mandarin Chinese
Introduction
Personal pronouns in Chinese
Syntactic constructions Involving A'-dependencies in Chinese
Wh-dependency
Relatlvizatlon
Topicallzation
Ex-situ cleft-focus structures
Wh-ex-situ constructions
ATB-constructions
Summary
General distribution of the resumptive pronouns in Chinese
Cases in which the presence of the resumptive pronouns is obligatory
Cases in which the presence of the resumptive pronouns is optional or prohibited
References
Subject index.