Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective is a collection of sixteen original papers by leading experts in Chinese syntax. The papers focus on a broad range of topics, demonstrating how the analysis of Chinese can inform our understanding of syntactic phenomena in other languages, and how insights gained in the study of other languages can in turn shed interesting new light on patterns in Chinese. Each chapter compares a specific major phenomenon in Chinese syntax with related patterns in at least one other language from Asia, Europe, North America or Africa, resulting in a series of fresh perspectives on Chinese and what the study of Chinese can offer linguists working on other, genetically unrelated languages.The volume is divided into three thematic sections, on the nominal domain, the predicate domain, and the C-domain. In addition to chapters on synchronic, adult syntax, the book includes chapters on Chinese diachronic syntax in a comparative perspective and the acquisition of syntax in Chinese, in comparison with that of other languages. The collection is a tribute to Professor C.-T. James Huang's lifelong work on the syntax of Chinese and his attempts to demonstrate how the comparative analysis of Chinese reveals important properties of Universal Grammar. With its broad, cross-linguistic focus and its detailed, new studies of Chinese, this book is essential reading for researchers of all language backgrounds in modern generative syntax.

1. On Syntactic Analyticity and Parametric TheoryCheng-Teh James Huang2. Nominal Arguments in Mandarin and YiLi Julie Jiang3. Appositives in Mandarin Chinese and Cross-linguisticallyFrancesca Del Gobbo4. Restricting Nonrestrictive Relatives in Mandarin ChineseJo-Wang Lin & Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai5. The same difference: Comparative Syntax-semantics of English same and Chinese tong/xiang-tongWei-wen Roger Liao and Yuyun Wang6. How Universal is the Mass/Count Distinction? Three Grammars of CountingGennaro Chierchia7. Analysis vs. Synthesis: ObjectsMichael Barrie and Yen-hui Audrey Li8. Transitive Psych-predicatesLisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Rint Sybesma9. Light verb Syntax between English and Classical ChineseShengli Feng10. Selection in Complex Predicate FormationMamoru Saito11. Agents in Mandarin and Igbo ResultativesAlexander Williams12. Verbal Answers to yes/no Questions, Focus and EllipsisAndrew Simpson13. On the Internal Structure of Comparative Constructions: from Chinese to EnglishGu Yang and Guo Jie14. Root Infinitive Analogues in Child Chinese and JapaneseKeiko Murasugi15. Wh-adjuncts, Left Periphery, and Wh-in-situMasao Ochi16. Cartographic Syntax of Pragmatic ProjectionsSze-Wing Tang