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СпутникиРНSpaceXРоскосмосNASAJeudi 05 Mars 2026, 12:00 to 13:00Organisation: Karen De Clercq, Lisa Brunetti et Ira Noveck (LLF)Lieu: LLF – Bât. ODG – 5e étage – Salle du conseil (533)
Chang Liu (Département d'études chinoises, INALCO): On the structure of gapless adnominal clauses in Mandarin Chinese and other Sinitic languages
Whether gapless clauses, as exemplified in (1a), pattern with gapped relative clauses in East Asian languages has long been a matter of debate. Some scholars argue that gapless clauses do not involve any syntactic gap, whereas others maintain that they do, either with or without positing a silent preposition.
In this paper, we argue that surface prenominal gapless clauses involve a richer underlying structure. Specifically, we propose that they are embedded in a subject–predicate configuration in which the gapless clause occupies the subject (or topic) position, while the relative head noun functions as the predicate (cf. (1b)). The head noun is derived via raising, leaving behind a gap.
We show that this analysis accounts for several well-attested properties of the construction, including long-distance dependencies, the impossibility of stacking, and the absence of resumptive pronouns. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the same analysis can be extended to other Sinitic languages such as Wu, Min, Hakka, and Yue. We hypothesise that the subject–predicate structure in (1b) is closely related to the topic-prominent nature of Sinitic languages.
(1) a. [māma chǎo cài ] de [wèidào]
Mom fry vegetable de smell/flavour
‘the smell/flavour of Mom’s frying vegetables’ (taken from Tang (1979))
b. [māma chǎo cài] (shì) [shénme wèidào]?
Mom fry vegetable be what smell/flavour
‘What does Mom’s cooking smell/taste like?’
Organisation:
Karen De Clercq, Lisa Brunetti et Ira Noveck (LLF)
Lieu:
LLF – Bât. ODG – 5e étage – Salle du conseil (533)
Chang Liu (Département d'études chinoises, INALCO): On the structure of gapless adnominal clauses in Mandarin Chinese and other Sinitic languages
Whether gapless clauses, as exemplified in (1a), pattern with gapped relative clauses in East Asian languages has long been a matter of debate. Some scholars argue that gapless clauses do not involve any syntactic gap, whereas others maintain that they do, either with or without positing a silent preposition.
In this paper, we argue that surface prenominal gapless clauses involve a richer underlying structure. Specifically, we propose that they are embedded in a subject–predicate configuration in which the gapless clause occupies the subject (or topic) position, while the relative head noun functions as the predicate (cf. (1b)). The head noun is derived via raising, leaving behind a gap.
We show that this analysis accounts for several well-attested properties of the construction, including long-distance dependencies, the impossibility of stacking, and the absence of resumptive pronouns. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the same analysis can be extended to other Sinitic languages such as Wu, Min, Hakka, and Yue. We hypothesise that the subject–predicate structure in (1b) is closely related to the topic-prominent nature of Sinitic languages.
(1) a. [māma chǎo cài ] de [wèidào]
Mom fry vegetable de smell/flavour
‘the smell/flavour of Mom’s frying vegetables’ (taken from Tang (1979))
b. [māma chǎo cài] (shì) [shénme wèidào]?
Mom fry vegetable be what smell/flavour
‘What does Mom’s cooking smell/taste like?’
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