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Waltraud PAUL

Chargée de recherches au C.N.R.S. (CR1)

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Postal address: CRLAO, EHESS, 54 Bld Raspail, 75006 Paris, France

Since 1994, W. Paul has been a researcher at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique i.e., the French National Center for Scientific Research) and affiliated with the CRLAO (Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale = ‘Center for linguistic research on East Asia'). Her main interest is the syntax of modern Mandarin, with occasional excursions into the diachronic syntax of Chinese.

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Research topics (selection)

• structure of the extended VP in Mandarin Chinese

• the ba-construction

• focus cleft constructions in Mandarin ( shi…de )

• left periphery and low IP area (topic, outer vs. inner; topic marker, sentence-final particles)

• adjective vs verb, adjectival modification, DP structure

• syntax/semantics mismatch (cf. Paul 1988, chapters 3 & 6)

• verb-object compounds vs. verb-object phrases (cf. Paul 1988)

• serial verb constructions (SVC)
  

Publications

Books

• Paul, W. 1988. The Syntax of Verb-Object Phrases in Chinese: Constraints and Reanalysis. Paris: Editions Langages Croisés.

Articles

• 2009 (with Redouane Djamouri). Verb-to-preposition reanalysis in Chinese. In: Crisma, P. & Longobardi, G. (eds.). Historical syntax and linguistic theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 194 - 211.

• 2008a. Expletive and thematic applicatives (with Effi Georgala and John Whitman). In: Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Charles B. Chang et Hannah J. Haynie, pp. 181-189. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
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• 2008b. The ‘serial verb construction’ in Chinese: A tenacious myth and a Gordian knot. Final version published in: The Linguistic Review 25, 3/4 : 367 - 411. 

• 2008c. Shi…de focus clefts in Mandarin Chinese (with John Whitman). Final version published in: The Linguistic Review 25, 3/4 : 413 - 451 

• 2006. Zhu Dexi's two classes of adjectives revisited. In:  Christoph Anderl & Halvor Eifring (eds.). Studies in Chinese language and culture. Festschrift in honour of Christoph Harbsmeier on the occasion of his 60th birthday.  Oslo : Hermes Academic Publishing, pp. 303-315.

• 2005 a. Low IP area and left periphery in Mandarin Chinese. Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes 33 (2005) 111 -134.

• 2005 b. Reanalysis and conservancy of structure in Chinese (with John Whitman). [Ms.]. Final version in: Batllori, M. et al. (eds.). Grammaticalization and Parametric Variation. Oxford: OUP ; pp ; 82 - 94.

• 2005 c. Adjectival modification and related issues in Mandarin Chinese [Ms.]. Final version published in Linguistics vol. 43, 4 (2005) : 757 - 793.

• 2005 d. The “serial verb construction” in Chinese: A Gordian knot. In: Oyharçabal B. & Paul W. 2005. Proceedings of the workshop La notion de « construction verbale en série » est-elle opératoire ? December 9, 2004, Ehess, Paris. Published in electronic form at : http://www.typologie.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article107.

• 2002 a. Sentence-internal topics in Mandarin Chinese: the case of object preposing. Language and Linguistics [Academia Sinica, Taiwan] 3, 4 : 695 - 714.

• 2002 b. Proxy Categories in Phrase Structure Theory and the Chinese VP. Cahiers de Linguistique – Asie Orientale 31, 2 : 137 - 174.

• 2000 Verb movement and the VP shell in Chinese: Some critical remarks. Cahiers de Linguistique – Asie Orientale 29, 2: 255-270.

• 1999 Verb gapping in Chinese: a case of verb raising. Lingua 107, 3/4 : 207 – 226.

• 1998 a. Verb raising in Chinese. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences (University of Illinois) 26, 1/2: 255 - 271 [dated 1996, published in spring 1998].

• 1998 b. Subordinating Conjunctions as a Functional Category in Mandarin Chinese (with H.-D. Gasde). in : T'sou, Benjamin K. (éd.). Studia Linguistica Serica. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, July 14 - 16, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong 1994. Hong Kong : City University of Hong Kong ; pp. 349 - 364.

• 1997 Les syntagmes prépositionnels en yu et zai en chinois archaïque (with R. Djamouri). Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale 26, 2: 221 - 248.

• 1996 a. Verb Gapping and VP Ellipsis in Chinese. in : Pan-Asiatic Linguistics. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Language and Linguistics, Bangkok, January 8-10, 1996 . Mahidol University at Salaya, vol. 2, pp. 569 - 578.

• 1996 b. Review of: Tsai Mei-chih. 1995. Modification adverbiale et l'ordre des mots en chinois. GLOT International 2, 1/2 : 16 - 18.

• 1996 c. Functional Categories, Topic Prominence and Complex Sentences in Chinese (with H.-D. Gasde). Linguistics 34, 2 : 263 - 294.

• 1994 a. Adjunct Clauses and Topic Prominence in Mandarin Chinese (with H.-D. Gasde). in: HAFTKA, B. (éd.). Was determiniert die Wortstellungsvariation? - Annäherungen an ein Interaktionsfeld von Grammatik, Pragmatik und Sprachtypologie. Wiesbaden : Westdeutscher Verlag , pp. 113 - 122.

• 1994 b. L'omission du verbe existe-t-elle en chinois ? Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale 23 : 255 - 264.

• 1993 a. Bi -zi ju de shanchufa de shangque [On the deletion approach in the comparative construction in Chinese]. Yuwen yanjiu [Linguistic Research] 1993, No. 1 : 29 - 36.

• 1993 b. A Non-Deletion Account of the Comparative Construction in Mandarin Chinese. Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale 22, 1 : 9 - 29.

• 1992 Bericht über das erste "Chinese Linguistics Institute”, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1991. Chinesischunterricht 9.

• 1990 Review of: Biq, Yung-O. 1987. The Semantics and Pragmatics of cai and jiu in Chinese. Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale 19, 2: 296 - 300.

• 1989 Vagabondages en syntaxe chinoise. Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale 18, 2: 269 - 292.

• 1988 a. Etude de dào introduisant les expressions temporelles. Journal of Humanities East/West (National Central University Chungli, Taiwan) 6: 177 - 196.

• 1988 b. The purposive gei clause in Chinese. Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale 17, 1: 25 -65

• 1987 Syntagme verbe-objet ou composé verbe-objet ? Un problème de la linguistique chinoise. Journal of Humanities East/West (National Central University Chungli, Taiwan) 5: 306 - 312

• 1985 Compte rendu de : Kautz, U. 1984. Chinese Equivalents of German and English Relative clauses. Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale 14, 1: 149 - 150

• 1984 Compte rendu de : Chu, C. C. 1983. A Reference Grammar of Mandarin Chinese for English speakers. Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale 13, 2: 290 - 291.

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