@article{Chi Hang Cheung_2019, title={The syntax and semantics of bare conditionals in Chinese}, volume={11}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/637}, DOI={10.18148/sub/2007.v11i0.637}, abstractNote={<p>This paper investigates a Chinese construction that Cheng & Huang (1996) term the "bare conditional". Previous analyses have treated this construction as involving unselective binding. I argue against such an approach, and propose that the matching requirement observed in Chinese bare conditionals is derived through sideward movement (Hornstein & Nunes 2002, Nunes 2004). I show that this analysis can provide a principled account for the parallelism constraint and the apparent violation of vacuous binding reported in recent studies (Pan & Jiang, forthcoming, Leung 2006). Adopting Caponigro’s (2003, 2004) semantic analysis of plain free relatives to bare conditionals in Chinese, I also show that it can nicely accommodate the universal reading as well as the quantificational variability effect.</p>}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Chi Hang Cheung, Candice}, year={2019}, month={Aug.}, pages={150–164} }