<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">On the basis of considerations involving complementizers, sentence-final particles,
need, aspect, tense, focus and topic, agreement morphemes, determiners, verbrelated
particles and adpositions, I reach the conclusion that many more heads
in the sentential projection line (and elsewhere) must be taken to be silent than is
usually thought. I then argue that this state of affairs ultimately reflects the fact
that every projecting head is silent.提要本文探討的對象包括標句詞、句末助詞、“need”、體、時、焦點與話題、一致關係
語素、限定詞、與動詞有關的助詞、介詞，得出的結論是：在句子投射系列及其他
位置上，無聲中心語的數目應該遠多於過去所理解。本文進而指出，以上的情況都
說明一個事實，那就是中心語都是無聲的成分。</abstract>

The Silence of Heads

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Cinque (2010, 2014) shows that in English and Italian, adjectives have two
syntactic sources, each with different interpretive properties; one source
corresponding to predicative adjectives; the other to non-predicative adjectives.
This study examines adjectives in Mandarin Chinese with the goal of finding out
whether Chinese displays the same pattern. The data shows that Chinese behaves
similarly to English and Italian; adjectives that are derived from relative clauses
are semantically different from those that directly modify nouns. In addition,
Chinese displays the correspondence that predicative adjectives are derived from
reduced RC, while nonpredicative adjectives participate in direct modification.
However, this parallelism is only possible if we modify the line drawn between
“predicative” and “nonpredicative” assumed by Chinese grammarians.提要Cinque (2010, 2014) 認為作定語的形容詞有兩個句法來源，並為英語和義大利語提
供證據指出不同來源之形容詞帶有不同的語義，句法來源的不同最終歸究於形容詞
是否用作謂語。本文探討漢語形容詞的句法來源，證據顯示漢語形容詞同樣有兩個
來源：直接修飾以及關係小句，前者與後者顯現不同語義。形容詞是否用作謂語在
漢語也發揮同樣作用，對形容詞的句法來源有決定性因素。但漢語和英語，義大利
語的相似之處只有在以下情況才能呈現出來：漢語“謂語性形容詞”與“非謂語性
形容詞”的區分必須重新規劃，所有不加“的”的形名詞組中的形容詞皆應納入非
謂語性形容詞中。</abstract>

Syntactic Sources of Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I report a few study notes of semantic selection in this paper. First, if derivational
affixes s-select roots, which have no categorial features, s-selection may be
implemented independently of c-selection. Second, in certain constructions, it
seems that s-selected features do not take part in the syntactic operations that
establish syntactic dependencies, and thus the inspection of s-selection seems
to be local to the merge domain. I also examine s-selection between phrases,
showing that it follows the same projection principle as seen in the c-selection
between phrases.提要詞語間的語意選擇有可能獨立於詞類選擇。如果詞根沒有詞類，那麼派生詞綴對詞
根的語意選擇就獨立於詞類選擇。其次，在某些句式中，兩個成分之間的句法依賴
關係也有可能獨立於語意特徵的選擇。因此，對語意選擇的檢驗可以是局部的。本
文亦討論兩個短語之間的語意選擇關係，發現短語之間的語意選擇關係跟短語之間
的詞類選擇關係遵守同樣的投射原則。</abstract>

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