Sinitic languages are very often described as tenseless, since they are generally seen as
lacking 'true'grammatical markers of tense: thus, the interpretation of time reference relies on …

Many proposals on restructuring suggest that restructuring phenomena are only observed
when a control predicate takes as a complement a functional projection smaller than a …

A theme in research on finiteness suggests that finiteness is an abstract formal property of
clauses that can be found across languages, even though languages might differ in how …

This thesis presents an empirically oriented investigation into Mandarin-Chinese control and
complementation. It provides an in-depth systematic classification of Chinese matrix …

Lifetime effects refer to the inferences about the life/death of the individual in sentences with
individual-level predicates like Mary is/was blue-eyed. In English, contradictory lifetime …

In this paper, we investigate constraints on the time reference of embedded clauses in
Mandarin. We show that while English past-tensed embedded clauses disallow later-than …

'Non-finiteness' is a phenomenon that occurs in most natural languages, whereby a verb is
not inflected by grammatical tense, and does not possess the grammatical features of …

Цей посібник є першою українською систематичною порівняльною граматикою
класичної китайської мови веньянь та сучасної літературної китайської мови путунхуа …

This thesis is an investigation of the nature and theoretical analyses of the syntax of relative
constructions in Mandarin Chinese, with a focus on adjunct relative constructions and …

This article demonstrates how the Implicational Complementation Hierarchy (ICH) is
manifested in Mandarin and accounts for the data with a synthesis model of …