Open AccessReview article of Waltraud Paul’s <i>New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax</i> (2015)
Author(s) -
Ping Li
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
glossa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2397-1835
DOI - 10.5334/gjgl.233
Subject(s) - linguistics , typology , syntax , problem of universals , point (geometry) , theoretical linguistics , philosophy , psychology , sociology , mathematics , geometry , anthropology
Taking Paul (2015) as a starting point, this article discusses different approaches concerning the contribution made by Chinese to general syntactic theory and typology. It demonstrates that the solution of basic questions such as the precise inventory of lexical categories can have far-reaching consequences for more general issues such as case theory, linearization, head parameter and the status of typological universals