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Chapter1:偌Jua7and幾Kui2inTaiwaneseSouthernMin:InterpretationsBasedonValuation
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suchas偌jua
7
.
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Tesameappliestoanotherunderspecifiedexpression幾
kui
2
.Tetwounderspecifiedwordsremainuninterpretablewhentheydonot
enterintoanagreementwithvariouskindsofoperatorstheheadCoftheCP
projection.
TeIndet_howelement幾kui
2
Chowmany)hastobelinkedtotheoper-
atorintheheadCofCPbearingthefeature[+interrogative]sothattheinde-
terminate_howcanbevaluedandtotakeoninterrogativeinterpretation.
幾kui
2
mayoccupyarangeofsyntacticpositionsdictatedbyitsinherent
semanticproperties(Solt,2015).Tesameagreementschemeisatworkfor
itsinterpretationasaninterrogativewordindegreequestions.
Tatthefeatureagreementmattersintheinterpretationofthetwofunc-
tionalwordscanbeverifiedwhentherearesomeotherfunctionalelements
interferesbetweentheoperatorinCandthefunctionalwords.Terelation-
shipbetweentheoperatorbearingtheinterrogative,exclamativesorother
featureandthefunctionalwordssuchastheIndet_howelement偌jua
7
or
幾kui
2
shouldbelocalinkeepingwiththeprincipleofsubjacency.
7
Inpartic-
ular,thetwoelementscannotbeinterruptedbyathirdfunctionalelement.If
theinterventionoccurs,themergedexpressionwillclash.However,thereis
anotherpossibility.Forexample,ifthereisafunctionalcategorysuchasaneg-
ativeelement無bo
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(not.have)whichisclosertotheunderspecifiedelements
thantheinterrogativeoperatorinCP
,thentheopportunityfortheunderspeci-
fiedelementtobecheckedwiththeinterrogativeoperatorasamoreremoteele-
mentwillbepreempted.
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Asanoption,thewholeexpressionunderthescopeof
negationwilltakeonanproximalpaucalinterpretationintheindicative,asin
無偌懸bo
5
jua
7
kuan
5
(not.havehowtall)Cnotsotall)
.
Inothertypesofstructuralconfiguration,ifwhatisinvolvedintheCP
isanEXCLM(exclamative)operator,thenthewholeexpressionwilltakeon
anexclamatoryinterpretationfollowingthecheckingoftheinterpretable
EXCLMoperatorandtheuninterpretablefunctionword偌jua
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,asin偌好
食咧jua
7
ho
2
tsiah
8
leh
0
CHowdeliciousitis!)wherethesentence-finalparticle
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ForthetheoreticalframeworkofthecheckingrelationshipseeChomsky(2001),Framptonand
Gutmann(2002),andLópez(2007).Simpson(2000)studiesWh-Movementintermsoftheory
offeaturechecking.However,itfocusesonconstituentquestionsratherthandegreequestions,
themainconcernofthispaper.
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Subjacencyisasyntacticlocalityconstraintonmovement.Itplacesrestrictionsonmovement
andtakesitasastrictlylocalprocess(LasnikandUriagereka,1988:20-22).
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TederivationinkeepingwiththemechanismofUpwardAgreeandthedistinctionbetween
checkingandvaluationtobepresentedin3.1willsaveusaneedtotalkabouttheintervention
efect.
