The use of resumptive pronouns is quite productive in Mandarin Chinese however their
distribution has rarely been studied in a systematic way. This book not only gives a thorough
description of the general distribution of resumptive pronouns in different contexts but also
offers a theoretical account in the framework of the Minimalist Program. Different types of
A'-dependencies mediated by gaps and by resumptive pronouns are derived by different
minimalist mechanisms such as Agree Match and Move. These mechanisms only apply at Narrow
Syntax and do not uniformly obey locality constraints. Importantly interpretative properties
of an A'-bound element such as reconstruction effects is only related to its internal
structure irrespective of how the A'-chain concerned is derived. From this perspective
resumptivity is an exclusively syntactic-related phenomenon and is thus not subject to any
interface condition. Adopting a comparative approach this study improves the general
understanding of resumptivity crosslinguistically.
