ABSTRACT
In the past few decades, the syntactic study of the Chinese language has reached unprecedented width and depth both in the amount of phenomena discovered and for theoretical development. The literature is so immense that it becomes impractical to provide a comprehensive coverage of the field while guaranteeing the presentation to be informatively detailed and accurate. For this reason, the current entry is written with two guidelines: (i) The content will focus primarily on the works conducted within the Principles-and-Parameters (PnP) model of syntax; (ii) only a subset of those topics will be covered which have either made contributions to the general PnP theory or shed new light on certain unique phenomena in Chinese. These choices are made solely to keep the entry manageable.
