Proceedings of the 20 North American conference on Chinese linguistics. Volume 2

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Columbus: Ohio State University, East Asian Studies Center, 2008. — xviii; pp. 527 - 1075.The 20th North American conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-20) was held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, on 25-27 April 2008. NACCL-20 celebrated the twentieth anniversary of this annual conference and the conference’s first return to its birthplace at the Ohio State University.ISBN: 978-0-9824715-1-7Syntax and semanticsAi Ruixi Ressy and Chen Jidong. A puzzle in Chinese dative shift Chang Melody Ya-Yin. Postverbal particles in Naxi Chen Liping . The scalarity of dou in focus structure Chen Weirong. Relative clauses in Hui'an dialect Cheng Hsu-Te Johnny. Attitude phrase and a puzzle of reconstruction Donazzan Marta. Presupposition on times and degrees: the semantics of Mandarin hái Gao Qian. Word order in Mandarin: Reading and speaking He Baozhang 何宝璋. 谈 "有（一）点 + 静态动词" 的语义及语用功能 Hsu Yu-Yin. The sentence-internal topic and focus in Chinese Hu Jianhua and Pan Haihua. Mandarin intransitive verbs and their objects at the syntax-information structure interface Hu Wenze 胡文泽. '把’字句语法意义在现代汉语‘把’字结构句中的不均衡表现 Huang Hui-Yu Catherine. Ambiguity in the affirmative/negative ‘V u/bo NP’ construction in Taiwanese Southern Min Huang Yahui Anita. Prepositions in Chinese bare conditionals Kuo Pei-Jung. Light verb construction as a case of remnant movement Kuong Io-Kei Joaquim. Yes/no question particles revisited: the grammatical functions of mo4, me1, and maa3 Li Chao. On the headedness of Mandarin resultative verb compounds Li Dianyu. Analyzing passive constructions in the finite state Li Kening. Contrastive Focus Structure in Mandarin Chinese Lin Yi-An. A probe-goal approach to parametric variation in English and Mandarin Chinese nominal phrases Qian Nairong 钱乃荣. 上海方言的时态 Ren Fei. Temporal meaning of -le in Chinese Rouzer Jack. Adjectivals and adverbials: on the representation of quantities and qualities in Chinese and implications for language typology Shen Yang 沈阳. 补语小句和处所义双宾结构的句法构造 Simpson Andrew and Ho Hao Tam. The comparative syntax of passive structures in Chinese and Vietnamese Tieu Lyn Shan. Non-referential verb use in Chinese: A unified verb copying analysis Tseng Yu-Ching. Branching consistency as a syntactic OCP constraint on Hakka relative construction Wang Xin. The semantics and pragmatics of liandou /ye, lian, dou, and ye Zhang Lan. Locative inversion and aspect markers le and zhe in Mandarin Chinese Zhang Qing. The negative auxiliary in Chinese imperatives Sentence-processing and psycholinguistic studiesHsu Dong-Bo. Structural persistence in Mandarin Chinese preschoolers Huang Yu-chi and Kaiser Elsi. Investigating filler-gap dependencies in Chinese topicalization Ng Shukhan. An active gap strategy in the processing of filler-gap dependencies in Chinese Wang Zhijun. Context coercion in sentence processing: evidence from Chinese Pragmatics and discourse analysisDong Xinran. Chinese requests in academic settings He Yi. Humor in discourse: a linguistic study of the Chinese dialect film, Crazy Stone (疯狂的石头) Kang Hana. A discourse analysis of code-switching in Falling Leaves and Luoyeguigen (落葉歸根) Meng Nan. Making requests: a pragmatic study of Chinese mother-child dyads Tsai I-Ni. Projecting the unanticipatory: the Mandarin particle ei and its projectability in daily conversation Yang Jia. How to say ‘no’ in Chinese: a pragmatic study of refusal strategies in five TV series