Remarks on the Final-over-Final Condition: A View from Chinese Head-Final Structures

The paper discusses the universality of the final-over-final condition (FOFC). It has been proposed that sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Chinese may invalidate the universality of FOFC. This paper argues that the challenge from SFPs is inconclusive since the evidence for the head status of SFPs i...

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Autor principal:	Liao Wei-wen Roger
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Publicado:	Sciendo 2017
Materias:	final-over-final condition head-final structure representation theory sentence-final particle chinese syntax Chinese language and literature PL1001-3208
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:596ec8bb3a0b48f88bf8f73206fab03e2021-12-02T15:27:26ZRemarks on the Final-over-Final Condition: A View from Chinese Head-Final Structures1017-127410.1515/scl-2017-0005https://doaj.org/article/596ec8bb3a0b48f88bf8f73206fab03e2017-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2017-0005https://doaj.org/toc/1017-1274The paper discusses the universality of the final-over-final condition (FOFC). It has been proposed that sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Chinese may invalidate the universality of FOFC. This paper argues that the challenge from SFPs is inconclusive since the evidence for the head status of SFPs is lacking. On the other hand, the leftward complement of N0 in Chinese (Huang 2016) poses a greater threat to FOFC. However, it is argued that the violation is caused by a language-particular word order constraint due to Case directionality (Li 1990). Relating the syntactic FOFC violation to the word order constraint in compounds, it is proposed that FOFC may be understood as an instance of the shape conservation principle (Williams 2003), where the language-particular constraint is satisfied at the expense of a minimal violation of the universal condition.Liao Wei-wen RogerSciendoarticlefinal-over-final conditionhead-final structurerepresentation theorysentence-final particlechinese syntaxChinese language and literaturePL1001-3208ENStudies in Chinese Linguistics, Vol 38, Iss 2, Pp 93-118 (2017)
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description	The paper discusses the universality of the final-over-final condition (FOFC). It has been proposed that sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Chinese may invalidate the universality of FOFC. This paper argues that the challenge from SFPs is inconclusive since the evidence for the head status of SFPs is lacking. On the other hand, the leftward complement of N0 in Chinese (Huang 2016) poses a greater threat to FOFC. However, it is argued that the violation is caused by a language-particular word order constraint due to Case directionality (Li 1990). Relating the syntactic FOFC violation to the word order constraint in compounds, it is proposed that FOFC may be understood as an instance of the shape conservation principle (Williams 2003), where the language-particular constraint is satisfied at the expense of a minimal violation of the universal condition.
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title	Remarks on the Final-over-Final Condition: A View from Chinese Head-Final Structures
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title_fullStr	Remarks on the Final-over-Final Condition: A View from Chinese Head-Final Structures
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Remarks on the Final-over-Final Condition: A View from Chinese Head-Final Structures

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