Varieties of Alternatives (eBook)
XIX, 174 Seiten
Springer Singapore (Verlag)
978-981-10-6208-7 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Chapter 1. Introduction1.1. The Cast of Characters 1.2. Main Themes 1.3. Overview of Things to Come Chapter 2. Background2.1. Semantic Assumptions2.2. Syntactic AssumptionsChapter 3. Varieties of Alternatives: Mandarin Focus Particles3.1. Introduction 3.2. Deriving ‘Ambiguities’ through Alternatives3.3. Regulating Ambiguities3.4. Connection to Previous Work3.5. ConclusionChapter 4. More Exclusives4.1. Introduction4.2. Exclusive (Dis)harmonies4.3. Too Many Onlys4.4. ConclusionChapter 5. Mandarin Wh-conditionals: Challenges and Facts5.1. Introduction 5.2. Basics of Wh-conditionals 5.3. Previous Analyses . .5.4. Semantic Properties of Wh-conditionals5.5. ConclusionChapter 6. Proposal-A: Wh-conditionals as Interrogative Conditionals6.1. Developing the Proposal6.2. Explaining the Properties in Detail6.3. ConclusionChapter 7. Proposal-B: Wh-conditionals as Interrogative Dependency7.1. Introduction7.2. Dependency as Relations between Questions 7.3. The Significance of Short Answers 7.4. Questions as Sets of Structured Meanings 7.5. Wh-conditionals Encode a Special Dependency Relation 7.6. Explaining the Properties 7.7. Comparison, Conclusion and Implication7.5. Wh-conditionals Encode a Special Dependency Relation 7.6. Explaining the Properties7.7. Comparison, Conclusion and ImplicationChapter 8. Concluding Remarks
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.10.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics |
| Zusatzinfo | XIX, 174 p. 16 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Singapore |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | Chinese • Chinese Linguistics • conditionals • Focus Particles • Formal Semantics • Natural Language Grammar • Questions in Chinese Language |
| ISBN-10 | 981-10-6208-0 / 9811062080 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-981-10-6208-7 / 9789811062087 |
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