Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Chinese Wh-Constructions 1
1.2 The Theoretical Background 3
1.3 Outline of the Book 5
Chapter 2 Two Theories of Licensing Wh-in-Situ 9
2.1 The Quantificational Property of Wh-Phrases 9
2.2 Movement Approach 10
2.2.1 QR 11
2.2.2 Arguments for Raising Wh-in-Situ at LF 13
2.2.3 Comments 18
2.3 Non-Movement Approach 18
2.3.1 Problems of Raising Analysis at LF within MP 18
2.3.2 Clausal Typing Hypothesis 21
2.3.3 Incorporating Unselective Binding into MP 23
2.3.4 Classification of Wh-Phrases 26
2.4 Summary 30
Chapter 3 Intervention Effects 32
3.1 Wh-Nouns and Intervention Effects 32
3.1.1 Quantifier Intervention Effects 33
3.1.2 Focus Intervention Effects 47
3.1.3 Common Properties between the Two Kinds of Interveners 52
3.2 Wh-Adverbs and Intervention Effects 54
3.2.1 Weishenme“why” 54
3.2.2 Zenmeyang“how”,Shenmeshihou“When”and Zainali“Where” 62
3.3 Summary 64
Chapter 4 Interaction between a Wh-Phrase and a Strong QP 66
4.1 Scope Ambiguity between a Wh-Noun and a Universal Quantifier 66
4.1.1 Analysis of English Data 67
4.1.2 A Unified Account for English and Chinese Data 72
4.1.3 LF-Chain Based Scope Principle 75
4.2 Scope Ambiguity between Wh-Phrases and Definite DPs 81
4.2.1 A Quantificational Account of Definite DPs 81
4.2.2 Interaction between a Wh-Noun and a Definite DP 88
4.3 Interaction between a Wh-Adjunct and a Strong QP 89
4.4 Concluding Remarks and Future Research 91
Chapter 5 Island Effects Revisited 95
5.1 Island Effects of English Wh-Phrases 95
5.1.1 GB Accounts 96
5.1.2 MP Accounts 97
5.2 Various Accounts for Island Effects of Chinese Wh-Phrases 99
5.2.1 Asymmetry between Wh-Arguments and Wh-Adjuncts 99
5.2.2 Asymmetry between Wh-Nouns and Wh-Adverbs 104
5.2.3 Summary 108
5.3 A Tentative Solution 108
5.4 Summary 116
Chapter 6 Against Two Ways of Scope Taking 117
6.1 Against Non-Movement Approach 117
6.1.1 Against Clausal Typing Hypothesis 117
6.1.2 Against Unselective Binding 121
6.2 Against Raising Quantifiers without QR 129
6.3 Future Research 133
Chapter 7 Wh-Focalization 136
7.1 Three Possible Approaches 136
7.1.1 Wh-Movement 136
7.1.2 Wh-Scrambling 139
7.1.3 Wh-Topicalization 140
7.2 Wh-Focalization 145
7.2.1 Focus：the Definition,the Classification and Devices 145
7.2.2 A Wh-Noun as a Focus 149
7.2.3 Projecting a Focus 154
7.3 Syntactic Movement of Other Wh-Phrases 159
Chapter 8 The Semantic Association of Dou“All”with Wh-Nouns and Its Syntactic Realization 162
8.1 A Basic Overview of Dou 163
8.2 The Semantic Analysis of Dou 164
8.2.1 Previous Analyses of Dou 165
8.2.2 Predicate-Related Distributor 175
8.3 Wh-Nouns+Dou 178
8.3.1 The Dual Status of Dou 178
8.3.2 Dou as a Distributor 181
8.4 The Syntactic Status of Dou 183
8.5 Dou+Wh-Nouns 187
8.5.1 The Syntactic Distribution of R-dou 189
8.5.2 The Semantic Properties of R-dou 192
8.6 Against Binding Approach of Dou 194
8.7 Summary 198
Chapter 9 On the Non-interrogative Use of Chinese Wh-phrases 199
9.1 Wh-phrases in Simple Sentences 199
9.2 Wh-question as a Syntactic Component of a Complex Sentence 204
9.3 Non-interrogative Function of Questions 208
9.4 Summary 211
Chapter 10 Conclusions and Theoretical Implications 212
10.1 Concluding Remarks 212
10.2 Theoretical Issues of LF-Movement 214
10.3 Classification of QPs 218
10.4 Future Research 223
Bibliography 225