On movement in Chinese topic construction
Xiaorong Zhang · Journal of Anhui University of Science and Technology · 2009
The reconstructable topic element moves in a successive cyclic fashion from thematic domain to agreement domain and then to discourse domain,observing anti-locality condition.Feature-checking is the motivation for topic movement while linearization theory is for the deletion of multiple topic copies.A typical topic construction is generated through deletion of all copies except for the sentence initial one.With these operations as a basis,when the lowest copy has a pronominal spell-out,a left-dislocation sentence is generated.