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1、stProceedingsofthe21NorthAmericanConferenceonChineseLinguistics(NACCL-21).2009.Volume2.EditedbyYunXiao.Smithfield,RhodeIsland:BryantUniversity.Pages436-463.LookingintoClausesY.-H.AudreyLiUniversityofSouthernCaliforniaShi-ZheHuangHaverfordCollegeThereisaconf
2、lictbetweentheclaimthatclausesinChinesearealwaysCase-markedwhentheyareassignedthematicroles(Li1985,1990,Tsai1995)andthecontrastingclaimthatsuchclausesarenotassignedCase(Li2008).InthispaperwearguethatclausesinChinesearenotassignedCase(Pesetsky1982).TheCasefi
3、lterappliesonlytoNPs.TheapparentinstancesofclausesinCasepositionsactuallyinvolvenominalphrasesandCaseisassignedtothedominatingnominalphraseinsteadoftheclause.Thisissupportedbythefactthatsuchclausesdonotallowextractionfromwithin(complexNPconstraint).Furthers
4、upportforthisanalysiscomesfromanumberofimportantfactsnotnotedbefore,whichdistinguishesclausesinthepositionsalternatingwithnominalexpressions(CANP)andthosenotalternatingwithnominalexpressions(non-CANP).First,onlyCANPcanbeconjoinedbythenominalconjunctionwordh
5、e/genandtheconjoinedCANPscanco-occurwithdou,whoseappearancesignalsplurality.Secondly,onlyCANPcanbefollowedbyanovertnoun(phrase),suchas‘(the)matter/question/saying”andonlyCANPcanhavenominalinterpretations.Thirdly,non-CANP,suchastheobjectsofverbsrenwei/cai‘th
6、ink/guess’,cannotundergotopicalization,incontrasttoCANP.Amongothertheoreticalimplications,thisworkshowsthatthenotionofs(emantic)-selectioncoupledwiththeCaserequirementonNPscanderivethenotionofc(ategorial)-selection(Pesetsky1982,contraTsai1995).Keywords:Case
7、,clause,conjunction,Chinese1.Introduction:CaseandClausesCasetheorywasamajortoolinthegovernmentandbindingtheorytocapturethegeneralizationsregardingorderandconstituencyinnaturallanguages(Chomsky1980,11981,1986).Forinstance,NPsmustbeassignedCase---theCasefilte
8、r(Chomsky1980).1AsthedistinctionbetweenNPandDPisnotsignificantinthiswork,weadoptthetraditionallabelof“NP”sensitivetotheCasefilter.Li&Huang:LOOKINGINTOCLAUSES(1)TheCasefilter*[NPe]whereNPhasphoneticcont
