The topic structure: more evidence from English and Chinese
by Gu Gang. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-142). ; Abstract also in Chinese. ; ABSTRACT --- p.v ; Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 ; Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK --- p.7 ; Chapter 2.1 --- Grammaticality and Acceptability --- p.7 ; Chapter 2.2 --- The X-bar Theory --- p.9 ; Chapter 2.3 --- C-command --- p.10 ; Chapter 2.4 --- Barrier --- p.11 ; Chapter 2.5 --- Government --- p.12 ; Chapter 2.6 --- The Binding Theory --- p.13 ; Chapter 2.7 --- Indexation --- p.16 ; Chapter 2.7.1 --- Lexical Words --- p.17 ; Chapter 2.7.2 --- Trace --- p.19 ; Chapter 2.7.2.1 --- The ECP --- p.21 ; Chapter 2.7.2.2 --- The Overt Trace --- p.23 ; Chapter 2.7.3 --- PRO --- p.25 ; Chapter 2.7.4 --- pro --- p.28 ; Chapter 2.7.5 --- Summary --- p.29 ; Chapter 2.8 --- The General Control --- p.30 ; Chapter 2.9 --- Summary --- p.33 ; Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- THE CLASSIFICATION OF TOPIC STRUCTURES --- p.35 ; Chapter 3.1 --- The Definition --- p.35 ; Chapter 3.2 --- Topicalized Topics and Left-Dislocalized Topics --- p.40 ; Chapter 3.3 --- Pure Topics and Contrastive Topics --- p.42 ; Chapter 3.4 --- The Topic PP --- p.47 ; Chapter 3.5 --- Covert Passive Structures --- p.50 ; Chapter 3.6 --- Summary --- p.54 ; Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- SOME APPROACHES ON THE GENERATION OF THE TOPIC STRUCTURE --- p.56 ; Chapter 4.1 --- Ross (1967) --- p.56 ; Chapter 4.2 --- Chomsky (1977) --- p.59 ; Chapter 4.3 --- Brunson (1992) --- p.60 ; Chapter 4.4 --- "Huang (1984, 1987,1989, 1991)" --- p.61 ; Chapter 4.5 --- "Xu (1985,1986, 1994)" --- p.64 ; Chapter 4.6 --- Summary --- p.65 ; Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- The BASE-GENERATION APPROACH --- p.67 ; Chapter 5.1 --- The Identification of the Gap in the Comment --- p.67 ; Chapter 5.2 --- Subjacency Effect or Control Failure? --- p.70 ; Chapter 5.3 --- Free Empty Categories --- p.76 ; Chapter 5.4 --- The Base-Generated Variable --- p.82 ; Chapter 5.5 --- Summary --- p.84 ; Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- THE TOPIC PP --- p.85 ...