Echo Answers in Chinese

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Ting-Chi Wei
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Abstract This paper studies echo answers to yes-no questions in Chinese with respect to their distributions, derivations, and typological patterns. We reconsider Simpson’s (2015) verb-raising analyses of verb echo answers (VEAs), finding that his analysis is inspiring in describing the significant properties of VEAs but that he has not discussed issues pertinent to the role of le in VEAs, adverbial echo answers, and multiple verb echo answers. This paper proposes that the derivation of short echo answers in Chinese is two-fold: the verb echo answer involves V-to-v movement, pro-drop, and VP-deletion; and the adverbial short answer involves focus movement and TP deletion. The aspectual markers, the post-verbal le1 denoting perfective and the sentence-final le2 encoding a change of state in Chinese, play a crucial role in determining the grammaticality of certain verb-echo answers via aspectual anchoring. This analysis avoids analytical problems posed by V-to-C (domain) (Holmberg 2016; Simpson 2015, etc.). Evidence from information focus and negative scope reversal supports this two-track analysis of echo answers in Chinese. Finally, we conclude that typologically, Chinese, a language using verb-echo answers, is close to Vietnamese and Finnish in allowing adverbial short answers and akin to Thai and Finnish in allowing multiple verb echo answers.
中文回声回答
摘要本文从是非疑问句的分布、派生和类型模式等方面研究了汉语中是非问题的回声回答。我们重新考虑Simpson(2015)对动词回声回答(VEA)的动词提升分析,发现他的分析在描述VEA的重要性质方面是鼓舞人心的,但他没有讨论与le在VEA、状语回声回答和多动词回声回答中的作用有关的问题。本文认为,汉语中短回接的派生有两个方面:动词回接涉及V到V的运动、前降和VP的删除;状语短回答涉及焦点移动和TP缺失。体标记,即表示完成的后动词le1和表示状态变化的句尾le2,通过体锚定在决定某些动词回声答案的语法性方面起着至关重要的作用。这种分析避免了V-to-C(领域)带来的分析问题(Holmberg 2016;Simpson 2015等)。来自信息聚焦和负向范围反转的证据支持这种对汉语回声答案的双轨分析。最后,我们得出结论,在类型学上,汉语作为一种使用动词回声回答的语言,在允许状语短回答方面接近越南语和芬兰语,在允许多个动词回声回答方面类似于泰语和芬兰人。
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Studies in Chinese Linguistics
Studies in Chinese Linguistics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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0.50
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3
审稿时长
46 weeks
期刊介绍: STUDIES IN CHINESE LINGUISTICS is an international academic journal devoted to comparative study of Chinese language and linguistics and a platform for research of comparative linguistics and dialectal grammar under a comparative approach. We especially welcome synchronic or diachronic comparative works on any aspects of the syntax, semantics, and morphology among Chinese dialects or between a Chinese language/dialect and any languages that contribute to theoretical linguistics or have significant theoretical implications. The journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges.
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