Abstract
This article investigates the previously undocumented focus-sensitiveness of certain scope-bearing expressions in
Mandarin, and argues that the syntactic effects of this property should be accommodated by a structure that involves multiple
dependencies and inherited dependencies. At the empirical side, it is shown that in Mandarin, certain quantificational expressions
as well as typical focusing adverbs have to occur at positions where they (i) c‑command and (ii) be as close as possible to the
contrastive foci that they associate with. The similarity to the typical association-with-focus configurations is captured under a
unified Agree analysis that incorporated previous variable-adjunction-site analysis for focusing particles in German, while the
additional dependencies in these structures are accounted for by multiple Agree and feature inheritance. This analysis is compared
with some alternative approaches, which do not have equal empirical coverage or require more complex theoretical assumptions.
