Band 3
Varieties of Alternatives Focus Particles and wh-Expressions in Mandarin
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Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 73.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
23.12.2018
Abbildungen
XIX, 174 p. 16 illus.
Verlag
Springer SingaporeSeitenzahl
174
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.5/1.1 cm
Gewicht
306 g
Auflage
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-981-13-4826-6
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.
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