The Intervention Effect of Negation on Wh-Adverbials in Late Archaic Chinese

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The Intervention Effect of Negation on Wh-Adverbials in Late Archaic Chinese. / Wang, Aiqing.
The Second Asian and European Linguistic Conference Proceedings . Newcastle: Newcastle University, 2015. p. 160-172 (Newcastle and Northumbria Working Papers in Linguistics; Vol. 21, No. 1).

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Wang, A 2015, The Intervention Effect of Negation on Wh-Adverbials in Late Archaic Chinese. in The Second Asian and European Linguistic Conference Proceedings . Newcastle and Northumbria Working Papers in Linguistics, no. 1, vol. 21, Newcastle University, Newcastle, pp. 160-172. <http://www.ncl.ac.uk/media/wwwnclacuk/crills/files/importedresearch/volume-21.1.pdf>

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Wang, A. (2015). The Intervention Effect of Negation on Wh-Adverbials in Late Archaic Chinese. In The Second Asian and European Linguistic Conference Proceedings (pp. 160-172). (Newcastle and Northumbria Working Papers in Linguistics; Vol. 21, No. 1). Newcastle University. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/media/wwwnclacuk/crills/files/importedresearch/volume-21.1.pdf

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Wang A. The Intervention Effect of Negation on Wh-Adverbials in Late Archaic Chinese. In The Second Asian and European Linguistic Conference Proceedings . Newcastle: Newcastle University. 2015. p. 160-172. (Newcastle and Northumbria Working Papers in Linguistics; 1).

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Wang, Aiqing. / The Intervention Effect of Negation on Wh-Adverbials in Late Archaic Chinese. The Second Asian and European Linguistic Conference Proceedings . Newcastle : Newcastle University, 2015. pp. 160-172 (Newcastle and Northumbria Working Papers in Linguistics; 1).

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abstract = "This paper investigates the Intervention Effect of negation in Late Archaic Chinese (5th-3rd cBC; {\textquoteleft}LAC{\textquoteright}). Wh-complements of adverbials must raise out of the head-initial PPs to aposition between TP and vP due to obligatory wh-preposing, generating the reverted orderwh-P. Fronted wh-constituents may target one of the two focalised positions in the medialdomain, and the distributional asymmetry of wh-phrases is correlated with their base positions.The lower focused position below negation accommodates preposed wh-adverbials basegeneratedbetween negation and vP, while the higher focus position above negation isexpected to exclusively permit wh-constituents base-generated above negation, viz. whcomplementsof high PPs. However, when a negator is present and c-commands a whadverbialthat is supposed to target the low focus position, it will trigger wh-movement to thehigh focused position due to the Intervention Effect of negation (Beck 1996, Beck and Kim1997, Kim 2002, 2006). ",

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