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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