Varieties of Alternatives

Autor:	Mingming Liu
EAN:	9789811062087
eBook Format:	PDF
Sprache:	Englisch
Produktart:	eBook
Veröffentlichungsdatum:	17.10.2017
Untertitel:	Focus Particles and wh-Expressions in Mandarin
Kategorie:	Kultur
Schlagworte:	Chinese Linguistics Conditionals Focus Particles Formal Semantics Natural Language Grammar Questions in Chinese Language

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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 occur in. By examining these aspects in detail, the book will help readers gain a better understanding of a broad range of phenomena that involve these items - including exhaustivity, distributivity, questions and conditionals.

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.

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