Varieties of Alternatives: Focus Particles and Wh-Expressions in Mandarin (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1. The Cast of Characters 1.2. Main Themes 1.3. Overview of Things to Come Chapter 2. Background 2.1. Semantic Assumptions 2.2. Syntactic Assumptions Chapter 3. Varieties of Alternatives: Mandarin Focus Particles 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Deriving 'Ambiguities' through Alternatives 3.3. Regulating Ambiguities 3.4. Connection to Previous Work 3.5. Conclusion Chapter 4. More Exclusives 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Exclusive (Dis)harmonies 4.3. Too Many Onlys 4.4. Conclusion Chapter 5. Mandarin Wh-conditionals: Challenges and Facts 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Basics of Wh-conditionals 5.3. Previous Analyses . . 5.4. Semantic Properties of Wh-conditionals 5.5. Conclusion Chapter 6. Proposal-A: Wh-conditional s as Interrogative Conditionals 6.1. Developing the Proposal 6.2. Explaining the Properties in Detail 6.3. Conclusion Chapter 7. Proposal-B: Wh-conditionals as Interrogative Dependency 7.1. Introduction 7.2. Dependency as Relations between Questions 7.3. The Significance of Short Answers 7.4. Questions as Sets of Structured Meanings 7.5. Wh-conditionals Encode a Special Dependency Relation 7.6. Explaining the Properties 7.7. Comparison, Conclusion and Implication 7.5. Wh-conditionals Encode a Special Dependency Relation 7.6. Explaining the Properties 7.7. Comparison, Conclusion and Implication Chapter 8. Concluding Remarks