The Focus Marking Function Of Shi In Mandarin Chinese
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The Focus Marking Function Of Shi In Mandarin Chinese
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Author : Yao Zhu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Focus Marking Function Of Shi In Mandarin Chinese written by Yao Zhu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Focus (Linguistics) categories.
Focus And Background Marking In Mandarin Chinese
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Author : Daniel Hole
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2004-08-02
Focus And Background Marking In Mandarin Chinese written by Daniel Hole and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-02 with Political Science categories.
This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái, jiù, dou and ye are, in a specific use type, shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm. This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar. It caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information-structure, focus and contrastive topics, and quantification. The outstanding characteristic of this book, viz. its effortless integration of findings from formal semantics without heavy formal load, makes it rewarding reading both for linguists with a less formal background, and for researchers with some knowledge of formal semantics.
Focus Manifestation In Mandarin Chinese And Cantonese
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Author : Peppina Po-lun Lee
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-05-23
Focus Manifestation In Mandarin Chinese And Cantonese written by Peppina Po-lun Lee and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
One prominent function of natural language is to convey information. One peculiarity is that it does not do so randomly, but in a structured way, with information structuring formally recognized to be a component of grammar. Among all information structuring notions, focus is one primitive needed to account for all phenomena. Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese: A Comparative Perspective aims to examine from a semantic perspective how syntactic structures and focus adverbs in Mandarin Chinese and semantic particles in Cantonese conspire to encode focus structures and determine focus manifestation in Chinese. With both as tonal languages, Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese manifest different morpho-syntactic configurations to mark focus. A general principle governing focus marking in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese is given in the book, which aims to give a better understanding on the underlying principles the two used to mark additive and restrictive meanings, and related focus interpretations. Particular attention is also drawn to the co-occurrence of multiple forms of restrictive and additive particles in Cantonese, including adverbs, verbal suffixes and sentence-final particles. Linearity has shown to be an important parameter to determine how focus is structured in Cantonese. This book is aimed at advanced graduate students, researchers and scholars working on Chinese linguistics, syntax and semantics, and comparative dialectal grammar.
The Cartography Of Chinese Syntax
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Author : Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015
The Cartography Of Chinese Syntax written by Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that is guided by the view that syntactic structures contain grammatical and functional information that is ideal for semantic interpretation - by studying the syntactic structures of a particular language, syntacticians can better understand the semantic issues at play in that language. The chapters in this book map out the "topography" of a variety of constructions in Chinese, specifically information structure, wh-question formation, and peripheral functional elements. The syntactic structure of Chinese makes it an ideal language for this line of research, because functional elements are often spread throughout sentences rather than clumped together as is usually dictated by language-specific morphology. Mapping Chinese syntactic structures therefore offers a window into the origin of heavily "scrambled" constructions often observed in other languages. The book includes a preface that will discusses the goal of cartography and explains how the collection contributes towards our understanding of this approach to syntax. The subsequent seven original articles all contain original syntactic data that is invaluable for future research in cartography, and the collection as a whole paints a broader picture of how the alignment between syntax and semantics works in a principled way.
Chinese Shi De Focus Constructions
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Author : Kwok Tim Choi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Chinese Shi De Focus Constructions written by Kwok Tim Choi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Chinese language categories.
This thesis studies SHI...DE focus constructions, or what have been called cleft sentences, in Chinese. The two main goals are to understand the form and function of this type of construction and to account for its syntactic variations. First, I justify previous claims that shi plays a dual role in SHI...DE focus constructions as a contrastive focus marker and as a Theme-Rheme separator. Then I put together a set of restrictions on topical Themes in SHI...DE focus constructions, which I call topical Theme conditions. Finally, based on the data, I propose that the form of SHI...DE focus constructions is shaped by the interaction of four syntactic and pragmatic factors--topical Theme conditions, strong topic fronting, word order and a shi rule. These factors are ranked according to their strengths. The availability of such ranking suggests the possibility of using Optimality Theory to account for the form of SHI...DE focus constructions.
Focus And Background Marking In Mandarin Chinese
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Author : Daniel Hole
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-01
Focus And Background Marking In Mandarin Chinese written by Daniel Hole and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cai, jiù, dou and yeare in a specific use type, shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm. Foci agree with their backgrounds, with the particles being the agreement markers. The semantic categories involved are different types of quantification over alternatives: all alternatives may be true, or some, or not all, or none. This minimal semantics is capable of explaining the use of cai, jiù, dou and ye and two moreparticles (hái and zài) in various contexts that have figured in controversial debates over the past three decades. This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar, it caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information structure, focus and contrastive topics, and quantification. The outstanding characteristics of this book, viz. its effortless integration of findings from formal semantics without heavy formal load, makes it rewarding reading for both linguists with a less formal background, and for researchers with some knowledge of formal semantics.
The Chinese Particle Le
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Author : M.E. van den Berg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-09-27
The Chinese Particle Le written by M.E. van den Berg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-27 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Ever since the start of Chinese linguistic studies, the description of the Chinese particle LE has remained elusive. The classification has evolved from a listing of sentences and the discussion of contrastive pairs to a more context and discourse-oriented analysis. The development in recent years of inferential models and situation semantics has opened the way for a renewed study of the use of the Chinese particle LE. This book discusses the Chinese data from a 'mental space' perspective and finally reveals the role so-called Chinese 'sentence LE' plays in the construction and maintenance of discourse.
2011
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Author : 曾銘裕等著
language : en
Publisher: 中華民國政府出版品
Release Date : 2011-07-01
2011 written by 曾銘裕等著 and has been published by 中華民國政府出版品 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with categories.
本論文選集收錄11篇發表於國立屏東教育大學英語學系主辦之「2011國立屏東教育大學英語學系學術研討會」之論文選集。內容涵蓋文學與文化類及語言與英語教學類
Chinese Lexical Semantics
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Author : Meichun Liu
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-07-25
Chinese Lexical Semantics written by Meichun Liu and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-25 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2020, held in Hong Kong, China in May 2020.Due to COVID-19, the conference was held virtually. The 76 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 233 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Lexical semantics and general linguistics, AI, Big Data, and NLP, Cognitive Science and experimental studies.
Exhaustivity Contrastivity And The Semantics Of Mandarin Cleft Related Structures
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Author : Ying Liu
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-30
Exhaustivity Contrastivity And The Semantics Of Mandarin Cleft Related Structures written by Ying Liu and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-30 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures investigates the semantics of the cleft and cleft-related structures in Mandarin, which, over several decades, have presented analytical challenges for semantic theory. The goal of this book, in broad terms, is three-fold: (i) to figure out what clefting adds to the semantics of a sentence; (ii) to set apart the meaning and the discourse function of each type of cleft-related structure; and (iii) to provide a uniform analysis of Mandarin clefts and their related structures. More specifically, it addresses the following questions: (i) what is the semantics of Mandarin clefts? (ii) what do exhaustivity and contrastivity contribute to the meaning of clefts? (iii) what are the semantic (or pragmatic) factors that determine the variation of clefts, related structures, and canonical sentences? and (iv) cross-linguistically speaking, how do Mandarin shi...de cleft and its related structures differ from similar constructions such as English it-cleft, French c’est cleft, and German es-cleft? This book will be informative for linguists who are working on cleft constructions and focus on sensitive structures cross-linguistically, and those interested in experimental semantics and pragmatics.