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Coercion of Locatives in Mandarin Chinese
2013The composition of linguistic constituents always involves the consistency of collocation, that is to say, any two constituents in a unit must be the same or similar in meaning, syntax, usage or prosody; If inconsistency appears, one part of the combination will coerce the other to change its own characteristics, or generate a new feature to achieve ...
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Phonology of The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese
Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 1986Les patrons intonatifs du Mandarin peuvent se reduire a trois melodies : Melodie I, Melodie II et Melodie III. Le point cle pour differencier la declaration de la question reside non pas dans le point terminal mais dans le point debutant de l'intonation.
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Exclamatives in Mandarin Chinese
Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2015This paper deals with exclamatives in Mandarin and has two main objectives. The first is the application of the exclamativity tests proposed in the literature to identify “true” sentential exclamatives in Mandarin. The second goal is to establish the essential components of sentential exclamatives in Mandarin, in order to understand the necessary ...
Badan, L., Cheng, L.L.
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Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese
2016The use of resumptive pronouns is quite productive in Mandarin Chinese; however, their distribution has rarely been studied in a systematic way. This book not only gives a thorough description of the general distribution of resumptive pronouns in different contexts but also offers a theoretical account in the framework of the Minimalist Program ...
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English and Chinese (Mandarin)
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1982For centuries linguists in theoretical linguistics and contrastive analysis have confined themselves to the sentence boundary. This selfimposed restriction is, no doubt, the result of the view, sustained since classical times, that language is a self-contained system, a mechanism for producing and comprehending sentences.
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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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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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Resumption in Mandarin Chinese
2022Abstract Resumptive 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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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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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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