[演講] Clausal complementation and tone sandhi in Chaozhou Min
玉山語言學沙龍講座
Clausal complementation and tone sandhi in Chaozhou Min
* 講者：Prof. Nick Huang（National University of Singapore）
* 時間：7月19日（六）上午10點
* 地點：GOOGLE MEET 線上會議
* 主持人：臺灣師範大學謝妙玲教授
* 與談人：中央研究院語言學研究所 廖偉閱教授
* 報名連結: https://tinyurl.com/yc3zekj6
Abstract
Cross-linguistically, control verbs and verbs of belief and speech (henceforth
"belief" verbs) have complement clauses that are structurally different. This
talk is concerned with the extent to which this is the case in Chinese, where
overt evidence for such differences seems harder to observe, at least at
first glance. Although the issue has already attracted much attention in the
literature on Chinese, most work so far has focused on only Mandarin. We
address concerns about representativeness with a case study of an under-
studied Southern Min variety, Chaozhou (Teochew).
Like many other Southern Min varieties, Chaozhou features a rich tone sandhi
system. This talk will describe a set of exceptional tone sandhi patterns in
Chaozhou that occur on the left periphery of the complement clauses of belief
and subject control verbs. Drawing inspiration from research on the syntax-
prosody interface, we propose accounting for these exceptions in structural
terms, tying tone sandhi patterns to a functional projection in the clausal
left periphery. We argue that the general distribution of this projection is
as predicted by the Implicational Complementation Hierarchy (ICH), although a
more precise account can be obtained by further adopting the notion of
finiteness. These conclusions have parallels with recent accounts of Mandarin
clausal complementation, several of which also draw upon the ICH. Chaozhou
therefore serves as additional support for the ICH, while suggesting that an
abstract finiteness distinction is present not just in Mandarin, but more
broadly in Chinese as a language family.
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