演講摘要：Whether or not the notion of ‘finiteness’ is universally applicable has been a matter of continual controversy. In recent years, interest has been revived concerning finiteness in Chinese by a number of authors, including Jonah Lin (2011, 2015), Jowang Lin (2006, 2012), Zhang (2016), and several others. My talk will discuss some recent developments and show that most of the problems raised earlier disappear under a careful distinction among (verbal and nominal) predicates of various types and their complements, which come in different clause sizes as determined by their related semantic types. I shall explore the hypothesis that finiteness implies a head that internally licenses a subject in Spec/TP and gives rise to other related ‘signature properties’.