This paper explores Chinese global characteristics and their role in the Chi-nese grammar system.The article proves that global characteristic is the head-movement of a lexical head to another one.It determines the introduction of functional categories and the construction of a syntactic skeleton.To observe the Head-Movement Constraint,the lexical head's projection such as resultative and PP must act as an argument to be c-commanded by a lexical head.Hence,all the arguments should be introduced by the functional categories.To obtain the externalization,the order of merge and the direction of adjunction should be constrained.Thus,the Functional Category Hypothesis,the Natural Language Word Order Hypothesis and the Hypothesis of Same Direction between Adjunction and Movement can be set in the generative grammar.Specifically,the introduced functional categories determine the argument structure and word order of Chinese,and the constructed syntactic skeleton helps to identify parts of speech,word items,and grammatical functions.
the functional categoryexternalizationBorer-Chomsky Conjectureglobal characteristichead movement
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