Object Shift in Mandarin Chinese
论汉语主宾动语序中的宾语前移
Ning Zhang 张宁

Abstract 摘要
Based on an investigation of Chinese object shift, this research claims that the strength of a feature can be triggered to be strong. This claim implies that languages differ in default strength of a formal feature, rather than in terms of absolute strong/weak parameters. Empirically, this paper provides a unified analysis of three types of object shift in Mandarin Chinese. They are all triggered in the same way and have the same locality constraints. The paper also describes the syntactic properties of various focus markers. Furthermore, it explores the specificity issue, claiming that the differences in specificity with respect to object raising between Chinese and German are the result of the different interaction patterns between two kinds of economy principles, governing the syntactically motivated movement, and the semantically motivated movement respectively.

本文提出现代汉语的三类主宾动句型与焦点词相关。本文进一步分析了各类焦点词的句法特性。此外，针对宾语前移与宾语特定性特征的关系，本文比较了汉语和德语，指出这两种语言在这方面的不同点可由句法经济原则和语义经济原则相互作用的不同方式来解释。

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