Yen-Hui Audrey Li's scientific contributions
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Publications (4)
This article is a reply to Kuno et al. 1999, which claims that a structural approach to scope should be replaced by an expert system. But the alleged theoretical and empirical problems faced by the structural accounts for scope are based on assumptions or interpretations that are not adopted in the structural accounts. Further, there are problems w...
The Extended Standard Theory elaborated in Chomsky (1977) and Chomsky and Lasnik (1977) postulates the existence of an autonomous interpretive level: the Logical Form (LF) component. Representations at this level are derived from S-Structure representations via transformations (see May (1977)). These representations represent the structural meaning...
Syntax of Scope takes up the issue of relative operator scope in generative grammar and offers a comparative study of quantifiers and interrogative wh-operators. The authors argue that the interaction of these operators is constrained by two interpretive principles: a Minimum Binding Requirement and a Scope Principle. These principles are shown to...
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... For these reasons and others, a great deal of previous work on this topic (including McCloskey 1983;Borer 1984) has been based on the idea that the HSR is to be accounted for by extending the domain of application of Condition B in some appropriate way, so that it encompasses Ā-binding as well as A-binding. Recent work by Aoun and Li (1989) also explores this idea, drawing on data concerning the distribution of pronouns bound by quantifier expressions in Mandarin Chinese. They propose that bound pronouns (those linked to antecedents that at LF occupy Ā-positions) are subject to a requirement of "Ā-disjointness" that governs the distribution of referential pronouns. ...
... In a recent cross-linguistic study of scope interpretation, Scontras, Tsai, Mai & Polinsky (2014) compared English to Mandarin, a language generally assumed to have frozen scope (Aoun & Li, 1993 ...
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... Some adherents of the structural approaches also seem to acknowledge the necessity of eventually coming to terms with the factors that play a role in determining scope preferences in language. Aoun and Li (2000) claim that the lexical scope preferences of quantifiers "are not ruled out under a structural account" (page 140). It is clear from the surrounding discussion, though, that they intend such lexical requirements to be taken care of in some nonsyntactic component of grammar. ...
... Aoun and Li (1990) discusses bound pronouns in Mandarin Chinese but their focus is not on quantificational binding without c-command. ...
