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Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1995
This paper proposes an analysis of Mandarin Chinese negation in whichbu ‘not’ is an adverb in Spec,AuxP or Spec, VP which may occur only with unbounded aspectual situations and which must cliticize to the following element at S-structure. Evidence comes primarily from the facts that (1)bu does not normally occur with perfective aspect markers or with ...
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This paper proposes an analysis of Mandarin Chinese negation in whichbu ‘not’ is an adverb in Spec,AuxP or Spec, VP which may occur only with unbounded aspectual situations and which must cliticize to the following element at S-structure. Evidence comes primarily from the facts that (1)bu does not normally occur with perfective aspect markers or with ...
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2004
Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of aspect in Chinese, encompassing both situation aspect ...
Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery
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Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of aspect in Chinese, encompassing both situation aspect ...
Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery
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Resumption in Mandarin Chinese
2022Resumptive pronouns (RPs) exist in different types of A'-dependencies in Mandarin Chinese, such as relativization, left-dislocation (LD) structures, cleft sentences, across-the-board (ATB) constructions, and so on. Diachronically, resumptive dislocation structures were documented in the literature as early as 502 bce.
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2007
AbstractThis chapter shows that while Altaic languages had a decisive effect upon Mandarin, transfer was a relatively minor factor, while reduction due to non-native competence was comprehensively transformative. The evidence also suggests that the crucial locus of transformation was not the occupations by Genghis Khan (13th through 14th centuries) or ...
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AbstractThis chapter shows that while Altaic languages had a decisive effect upon Mandarin, transfer was a relatively minor factor, while reduction due to non-native competence was comprehensively transformative. The evidence also suggests that the crucial locus of transformation was not the occupations by Genghis Khan (13th through 14th centuries) or ...
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Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese
2010The present paper examines the syntax and semantics of adjectives in Mandarin Chinese and argues that adjectives have to be recognized as a separate part of speech in Mandarin. I show that adnominal adjectives introduced by de should not be analysed as reduced relative clauses or small clauses, since adjectives that cannot be used predicatively can be ...
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2009
This thesis examines the syntactic properties of passive constructions in Mandarin Chinese within the framework of Government and Binding. The theoretical framework of analyzing passives is that of Baker, Johnson and Roberts (1989, henceforth BJR) and Hale and Keyser (1993).
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This thesis examines the syntactic properties of passive constructions in Mandarin Chinese within the framework of Government and Binding. The theoretical framework of analyzing passives is that of Baker, Johnson and Roberts (1989, henceforth BJR) and Hale and Keyser (1993).
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Mispronunciation detection for Mandarin Chinese
Interspeech 2008, 2008Chao Huang 0011 +3 more
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