Mingming Liu

Varieties of Alternatives

Focus Particles and wh-Expressions in Mandarin

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This book concerns two focus particles (jiu, dou) and wh-expressions (shenme = 'what', na geren = 'which person') in Mandarin Chinese. These items are systematically 'ambiguous' and have played important roles in various aspects of Mandarin grammar. An idea based on alternatives and varieties of alternatives in particular - following Chierchia's 2013 analysis of the polarity system - is pursued to account for the systematic ambiguities. The unambiguous semantics of jiu, dou and wh-expressions are maintained and 'ambiguity' explained through varieties of alternatives interacting with other independently motivated aspects of the structure they… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-981-1348-26-6
EAN: 9789811348266
Produktnummer: 29582698
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 196 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.0 cm 306 g
Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 306

Über den Autor

Dr. Mingming Liu received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2016 and currently works as an assistant professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, China. His work has addressed several aspects of Mandarin grammar: focus particles such as the famous dou each, all, even, already and other only-like exclusives, wh-expressions and wh-conditionals, Mandarin conditionals in general and resultative verb compounds. He has published articles in several peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.