중국어 관계절 내의 전치사 분포와 최후의 수단

A Repair Approach to the Distribution of Prepositions in Chinese Relative Clauses.

This paper explores various issues related to the distribution of PPs in Chinese relative clauses. It is commonly understood that prepositions cannot be deleted as they carry their own specific semantic content. However, there are contexts in which prepositions must be elided. Chinese relative clauses are a case in point. In Chinese, prepositions are divided into two types, depending on whether or not they must be elided in relative clauses. The first type must be elided when it is stranded, whereas the second type must not be elided and is supported by a resumptive pronoun. This paper explores the possibility of accounting for the distribution of PPs in Chinese relative clauses by a repair strategy. More precisely, it is claimed that stranded prepositions are repaired either via ellipsis or insertion as a last resort, and the repair operation is governed by the Principle of Recoverability.