Jiun-Shiung Wu

Intensification and Modal Necessity in Mandarin Chinese

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This book addresses intensification and modal necessity in Mandarin Chinese.Intensification is used in this book to describe the speaker's emphasis on a proposition, because, by emphasizing on a proposition, the speaker intensifies the degree of his/her confidence and affirmativeness toward the truth of a proposition, cf. the distinction between 'weaker' and 'stronger'. Modal necessity discussed in this book refers either to the speaker's certainty regarding the truth of an inference, judgment or stipulation, that is, epistemic necessity or to the speaker's certainty concerning the obligatoriness of a proposition, based on rules or regulation… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-351-66096-9
EAN: 9781351660969
Produktnummer: 29455876
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 200 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'701 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 2 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 18 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

Jiun-Shiung Wu is a Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Institute of Linguistics at National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan. He received a Ph.D. degree in linguistics from University of Texas at Austin, Texas, U.S.A, May, 2003. He served as the President of Linguistic Society of Taiwan from February, 2010 to January, 2012. He is a board member of International Association of Chinese Linguistics. He is the author of Temporal and Atemporal Relations in Mandarin. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Monograph Series No. 2. He also publishes more than a dozen of journal papers and has more than thirty conference presentations.