By drawing on data of two types of VP dislocation in Mandarin, this paper argues that these two types represent a syntactic incarnation of XP-split constructions providing an interesting argument for the conception of information structure starting in the numeration and multiple Spell-Out of copies regulated by the checking of strong features over the course of a syntactic derivation. Building on Fanselow and Ćavar’s (2002) distributed deletion analysis, I show that Type 1 involves two autonomous nominals that form a nominal predicate structure in a VP, and the VP is copied and internally merged to a topic position, followed by multiple Spell-Out of the copies whose information structural features are checked. In contrast, Type 2 is derived via base-generation. I argue that the two types are derived employing the same set of operations in the computational system without extra postulations. Issues involved in dealing with Mandarin topic constructions are addressed.

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关于普通话中 VP 错位的句法*

本文利用普通话中两种 VP 错位的数据，认为这两种类型代表了 XP-split 结构的句法化身，为信息结构的概念提供了一个有趣的论据，该概念始于副本的计数和多个拼写通过在句法推导过程中检查强特征来调节。基于 Fanselow 和 Ćavar (2002) 的分布式删除分析，我表明类型 1 涉及两个自主名词，它们在 VP 中形成名词谓词结构，并且 VP 被复制并在内部合并到主题位置，然后是多个 Spell-Out检查其信息结构特征的副本。相反，类型 2 是通过碱基生成派生的。我认为这两种类型是在没有额外假设的情况下在计算系统中使用相同的一组操作推导出来的。解决了处理普通话主题结构所涉及的问题。