none 10.1075/la.290.15che John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 188626396 7998425 1420043 202601161003000038 10.1075 2026-01-16T09:04:54Z 2026-01-15T09:56:07Z 0 0166-0829 10.1075/la https://benjamins.com/ catalog/la Andrew Simpson University of Southern California https://ror.org/03taz7m60 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-0195 Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang This book brings together some of the most prominent linguists working in the field of East and Southeast Asian syntax to create a special collection of papers which highlight new developments in the analysis of the syntax of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian languages. Generative syntactic theory has regularly been influenced by discoveries made in Asian languages, and the present volume connects a broad range of striking patterns found in Asian languages with Minimalist syntactic theory and provides arguments for fresh approaches to a variety of fundamental problems and puzzles within formal syntax. The volume has also been created as a tribute to Professor C.-T. James Huang, one of the most influential of generative linguists active in the study of Chinese and other Asian languages. 290 1 15 2026 1 15 2026 9789027232120 9789027244222 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/la.290 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027244222 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027244222.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/la.290/html Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng Leiden University https://ror.org/027bh9e22 Rint Sybesma Leiden University https://ror.org/027bh9e22 Abstract This chapter argues that linguistic analyticity, defined as the situation in which there is a one-to-one relation between a bit of meaning and a bit of sound, is an epiphenomenon. 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