We argue that the contrastive dislocation to the low peripheral position in Mandarin Chinese does not target phrase markers, like TopicP or FocusP, contra recent proposals that attempt to extend the cartographic theory to the low IP‐area. We argue that such dislocations are best analyzed as PF movements, which display the total reconstruction effect and do not affect the LF interface. We show that the contrastive dislocation to the low periphery in Mandarin Chinese is subject to the same PF licensing condition found in the Object Shift construction in Scandinavian. Our analysis thus claims that the low periphery is not a part of the narrow syntax (unlike the left periphery). The templatic nature of the low periphery explains why it is more restricted across languages and is prone to linguistic variation.

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反对低位词组标记：普通话中的两种对比型位错*

我们认为，汉语普通话中低位边缘的对比性错位并不针对短语标记，例如TopicP或FocusP，这与最近的尝试将制图理论扩展到低IP区域的提议相反。我们认为，最好将这种位错分析为PF运动，它显示了整体重建效果，并且不影响LF界面。我们显示，汉语普通话低位边缘的对比性脱位受北欧斯堪的纳维亚语“宾语转换”构造中所发现的PF许可条件的约束。因此，我们的分析声称，低边缘不是窄语法的一部分（与左边缘不同）。低边缘的临时性质解释了为什么它在各种语言中受到更多的限制，并且易于出现语言变化。