Varieties of Alternatives

Focus Particles and wh-Expressions in Mandarin

AvMingming Liu

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Del 3 i serien Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics

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This book concerns two focus particles (jiu, dou) and wh-expressions (shenme = ‘what’, na geren = ‘which person’) in Mandarin Chinese. 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-23
Mått:155 x 235 x 11 mm
Vikt:306 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics
Antal sidor:174
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789811348266

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Background.- Chapter 3. Varieties of Alternatives: Mandarin Focus Particles.- Chapter 4. More Exclusives.- Chapter 5. Mandarin Wh-conditionals: Challenges and Facts.- Chapter 6. Proposal-A: Wh-conditionals as Interrogative Conditionals.- Chapter 7. Proposal-B: Wh-conditionals as Interrogative Dependency.- Chapter 8. Concluding Remarks.