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Book of Abstract Cantonese Syntax THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CANTONESE SYNTAX BOOK OF ABSTRACTS OLOMOUC 2019 THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CANTONESE SYNTAX BOOK OF ABSTRACTS June 27-28, 2019 Palacký University in Olomouc Sinophone Borderlands – Interaction at the Edges reg. no. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000791 Excellent research Website: http://sinofon.cz/ Contact: [email protected] The 1st International Workshop on Cantonese Syntax The 1st International Workshop on Cantonese Syntax will be held on 27–28 June, 2019, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. It aims to provide a forum for researchers to meet and discuss current development in Cantonese Syntax and to promote the study of Cantonese syntax in Central Europe. 3 Program 14:30–15:00 Relative clauses in Cantonese June 28, 2019 Jiaying Huang (Paris Diderot University) Moderator: Lisa Cheng 09:00–10:00 Verb stranding ellipsis: evidence from Cantonese Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng (Leiden University) 15:00–15:15 COFFEE BREAK June 27, 2019 Moderator: Joanna Sio 15:15–16:15 A Cantonese perspective on the head and the tail of the 09:00–10:00 On the hierarchical structure of Cantonese structure of the verbal domain 10:00–10:15 COFFEE BREAK sentence-final particle Rint Sybesma (Leiden University) Sze-Wing Tang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) 10:15–10:45 Morpho-syntax of non-VO separable compound verbs in Moderator: Joanna Sio Cantonese Moderator: Joanna Sio Sheila S.L. Chan and Lawrence Cheung (both Chinese 16:15–18:00 Reception (Konvikt Garden) University of Hong Kong) 10:00–10:15 COFFEE BREAK Moderator: Rint Sybesma 10:15–10:45 Proposing a syntax of Cantonese particles on a universal 10:45–11:15 The V-one-V construction in Cantonese spine Charles Lam (Hang Seng University of Hong Kong) John Wakefield (Hong Kong Baptist University) Moderator: Rint Sybesma Moderator: Joanna Sio 11:15–11:30 COFFEE BREAK 10:45–11:15 How syntactic can Cantonese interjections be? Tommi Leung (United Arab Emirates University) 11:30–12:00 Some aspect & related markings in Nanning Cantonese & Nanning Pinghua Moderator: Joanna Sio Hilario de Sousa (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) 11:15–11:30 COFFEE BREAK Moderator: Sze-Wing Tang 11:30–12:00 Ex-situ wh—phrases in Cantonese 12:00–12:30 The two types of post-verbal can1 in Cantonese Cindy Wan Yee Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Joanna Sio Ut-Seong (Palacký University) Moderator: Thomas Lee Moderator: Sze-Wing Tang 12:00–12:30 A devil of a question in Cantonese 12:30–14:00 LUNCH Michael Barrie (Sogang University) 14:00–15:00 Verb suffix as universal quantifier: the logical properties Moderator: Thomas Lee of ‘saai‘ revisited Thomas Hun-tak Lee and Margaret Ka-yan Lei (Tianjin 12:30–14:00 LUNCH Normal University and Chinese University of Hong Kong) 14:00–14:30 A double-headed analysis of the Chinese relative clause Moderator: Joanna Sio Bahareh Samimi (Université de Genève) and Fuqiang Li (Beijing Language and Culture University, China) 15:00–16:30 City (walking) tour Moderator: Lisa Cheng 16:30–18:00 Brewery tour: Chomutov Brewery 18:30–20:30 Dinner: Garden restaurant Pracharna 4 Program 14:30–15:00 Relative clauses in Cantonese June 28, 2019 Jiaying Huang (Paris Diderot University) Moderator: Lisa Cheng 09:00–10:00 Verb stranding ellipsis: evidence from Cantonese Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng (Leiden University) 15:00–15:15 COFFEE BREAK June 27, 2019 Moderator: Joanna Sio 15:15–16:15 A Cantonese perspective on the head and the tail of the 09:00–10:00 On the hierarchical structure of Cantonese structure of the verbal domain 10:00–10:15 COFFEE BREAK sentence-final particle Rint Sybesma (Leiden University) Sze-Wing Tang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) 10:15–10:45 Morpho-syntax of non-VO separable compound verbs in Moderator: Joanna Sio Cantonese Moderator: Joanna Sio Sheila S.L. Chan and Lawrence Cheung (both Chinese 16:15–18:00 Reception (Konvikt Garden) University of Hong Kong) 10:00–10:15 COFFEE BREAK Moderator: Rint Sybesma 10:15–10:45 Proposing a syntax of Cantonese particles on a universal 10:45–11:15 The V-one-V construction in Cantonese spine Charles Lam (Hang Seng University of Hong Kong) John Wakefield (Hong Kong Baptist University) Moderator: Rint Sybesma Moderator: Joanna Sio 11:15–11:30 COFFEE BREAK 10:45–11:15 How syntactic can Cantonese interjections be? Tommi Leung (United Arab Emirates University) 11:30–12:00 Some aspect & related markings in Nanning Cantonese & Nanning Pinghua Moderator: Joanna Sio Hilario de Sousa (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) 11:15–11:30 COFFEE BREAK Moderator: Sze-Wing Tang 11:30–12:00 Ex-situ wh—phrases in Cantonese 12:00–12:30 The two types of post-verbal can1 in Cantonese Cindy Wan Yee Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Joanna Sio Ut-Seong (Palacký University) Moderator: Thomas Lee Moderator: Sze-Wing Tang 12:00–12:30 A devil of a question in Cantonese 12:30–14:00 LUNCH Michael Barrie (Sogang University) 14:00–15:00 Verb suffix as universal quantifier: the logical properties Moderator: Thomas Lee of ‘saai‘ revisited Thomas Hun-tak Lee and Margaret Ka-yan Lei (Tianjin 12:30–14:00 LUNCH Normal University and Chinese University of Hong Kong) 14:00–14:30 A double-headed analysis of the Chinese relative clause Moderator: Joanna Sio Bahareh Samimi (Université de Genève) and Fuqiang Li (Beijing Language and Culture University, China) 15:00–16:30 City (walking) tour Moderator: Lisa Cheng 16:30–18:00 Brewery tour: Chomutov Brewery 18:30–20:30 Dinner: Garden restaurant Pracharna 5 Program 14:30–15:00 Relative clauses in Cantonese June 28, 2019 Jiaying Huang (Paris Diderot University) Moderator: Lisa Cheng 09:00–10:00 Verb stranding ellipsis: evidence from Cantonese Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng (Leiden University) 15:00–15:15 COFFEE BREAK June 27, 2019 Moderator: Joanna Sio 15:15–16:15 A Cantonese perspective on the head and the tail of the 09:00–10:00 On the hierarchical structure of Cantonese structure of the verbal domain 10:00–10:15 COFFEE BREAK sentence-final particle Rint Sybesma (Leiden University) Sze-Wing Tang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) 10:15–10:45 Morpho-syntax of non-VO separable compound verbs in Moderator: Joanna Sio Cantonese Moderator: Joanna Sio Sheila S.L. Chan and Lawrence Cheung (both Chinese 16:15–18:00 Reception (Konvikt Garden) University of Hong Kong) 10:00–10:15 COFFEE BREAK Moderator: Rint Sybesma 10:15–10:45 Proposing a syntax of Cantonese particles on a universal 10:45–11:15 The V-one-V construction in Cantonese spine Charles Lam (Hang Seng University of Hong Kong) John Wakefield (Hong Kong Baptist University) Moderator: Rint Sybesma Moderator: Joanna Sio 11:15–11:30 COFFEE BREAK 10:45–11:15 How syntactic can Cantonese interjections be? Tommi Leung (United Arab Emirates University) 11:30–12:00 Some aspect & related markings in Nanning Cantonese & Nanning Pinghua Moderator: Joanna Sio Hilario de Sousa (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) 11:15–11:30 COFFEE BREAK Moderator: Sze-Wing Tang 11:30–12:00 Ex-situ wh—phrases in Cantonese 12:00–12:30 The two types of post-verbal can1 in Cantonese Cindy Wan Yee Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Joanna Sio Ut-Seong (Palacký University) Moderator: Thomas Lee Moderator: Sze-Wing Tang 12:00–12:30 A devil of a question in Cantonese 12:30–14:00 LUNCH Michael Barrie (Sogang University) 14:00–15:00 Verb suffix as universal quantifier: the logical properties Moderator: Thomas Lee of ‘saai‘ revisited Thomas Hun-tak Lee and Margaret Ka-yan Lei (Tianjin 12:30–14:00 LUNCH Normal University and Chinese University of Hong Kong) 14:00–14:30 A double-headed analysis of the Chinese relative clause Moderator: Joanna Sio Bahareh Samimi (Université de Genève) and Fuqiang Li (Beijing Language and Culture University, China) 15:00–16:30 City (walking) tour Moderator: Lisa Cheng 16:30–18:00 Brewery tour: Chomutov Brewery 18:30–20:30 Dinner: Garden restaurant Pracharna 6 June 27, 2019 How syntactic can Cantonese interjections be? Tommi Leung (United Arab Emirates University) On the hierarchical structure of Cantonese sentence-final particles Main claim: We propose that Cantonese interjections are syntactic objects which lie on Sze-Wing Tang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) the leftmost fringe of syntactic structure, and can be described by postulating various functional projections within the interjection field at the syntax-pragmatic/discourse interface. Details: Interjections are widely considered as peripheral to language (Leech, Deuchar, Insights of Ross (1970), who proposes that sentences are derived from a deep structure and Hoogenraad 1982; Quirk et al. 1985). Syntacticians are not keen on analyzing that contains an explicit performative verb, have been revived under the cartographic interjections (e.g. oh, gosh, wow, etc) as syntactic objects given their phonological approach (Rizzi 1997, 2004, Cinque 1999, among many others), particularly in the anomalies, heterogeneous class of pragmatic functions, and independence at the works by Speas (2004), Tenny (2006), Hill (2007), Miyagawa (2012, 2017), Wiltschko sentence/discourse level. Though syntacticians consider interjections as closed class and Heim (2016), and Wiltschko (2017). The sentence-final particles (“SFPs”) in Chine- items and deserve more serious analyzes (Carnie 2013; Corver 2015). Chomsky (2008) se have attracted a lot of attention in the literature in the study of the clausal periphery. explicitly claimed that interjections lack an edge feature. The ancillary role of interjection The frequently used Mandarin SFPs are approximately six. To accommodate these six extends to Cantonese as a ‘particle-rich’ language (Matthews and Yip 2011; Tang 2015, SFPs, Tang (2010) proposes 4 functional heads whereas Paul (2014) and Pan and Paul 2018), a claim which we argue against.
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