A note on Fukui’s note

Abstract

This commentary relates Fukui’s (2015) note on weak vs. strong generation to two aspects of quantification in Chinese: quantifier scope and the syntactic licensing conditions of noninterrogative wh-expressions. It is shown that the phenomena under discussion echo Fukui’s (2015) view that only strong generation allows for a deeper understanding of natural language and that dependencies are to be distinguished structurally.

Keywords

• strong generation
• dependency
• chinese quantification
• noninterrogative wh-phrases
• 強性生成
• 依存關係
• 漢語量化結構
• 非疑問用法之疑問詞