Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation

Yen-hui Audrey Li is Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the comparison of grammatical properties in English, Chinese and other East Asian languages. Recent work has considered issues of order and constituency, scope interaction of quantificational expressions, as well as the distribution, structure and interpretation of different types of nominal expressions and relative constructions.Andrew Simpson is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research interests centre on the comparative syntax of East and Southeast Asian languages, and his work addresses issues relating to processes of language change, DP-structure, the syntax of question formation and the interaction of syntax with phonology.

• Part I: Functional Structure and Processes of Interpretatio in the DP/NPPart II: Grammaticalization and the Diachronic Development of Functional StructurePart III: Clause Level Structures: Processes of Interpretation and Principles of Organization

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