Bare numeral phrases in Mandarin and the Minimalist Mapping Hypothesis

IF 0.1 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
W. Liao
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Abstract

We pursue an agreement-based analysis of the bare numeral phrases in Chinese. Bare numeral phrases in Chinese often occur with the you marker in the preverbal position. With the marker, a bare numeral phrase obtains an individual-denoting reading, which has an existential meaning. In contrast, several syntactic environments do not need the you marker, and the bare numeral phrase obtains the quantity-denoting reading. In addition to the existential you marker, we observe that the distributions of the two readings are correlated to the lower (root) modals (Mod) and the middle aspects (Asp). We argue that the correlation can be analyzed through syntactic feature agreement. That is, the bare numeral phrase carries an unvalued quantificational feature in the null D, and its unvalued feature is valued by the corresponding existential you marker, Asp, and/or Mod heads through (multiple) agreement. We argue that the proposed feature agreement mechanism can improve upon the (Extended) Mapping Hypothesis (Diesing 1992; Tsai 1999, 2001) under the Minimalist Program.
汉语裸数词短语与极简映射假说
我们对汉语中裸数词短语进行了基于一致性的分析。汉语中裸数词短语常与“你”标记一起出现在言前位置。有了标记,一个纯粹的数字短语获得了一种具有存在意义的个体表示阅读。相反,有几种语法环境不需要“你”标记,只需要数字短语就可以获得表示数量的阅读。除了存在主义you标记外,我们观察到两个读数的分布与较低(根)情态(Mod)和中间(Asp)相关。我们认为相关性可以通过句法特征一致性来分析。也就是说,纯数字短语在空D中带有无值的定量特征,其无值特征由相应的存在标记、Asp和/或Mod头通过(多重)协议进行赋值。我们认为所提出的特征一致机制可以改进(扩展)映射假设(dising 1992;蔡崇信(1999,2001)在极简主义计划下。
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