{"title":"限定性和汉语主句","authors":"R. Sybesma","doi":"10.1075/ijchl.19002.syb","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.19002.syb","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 本文通过对含有光杆动宾结构和体标记的汉语非自足句的考察,提出这些句子不合法的原因在于它们都是非限定句。在对非限定句做出的功能定义的基础上,本文指出事件句的时间理解需要三类抽象“时间”,即事件时间(Situation Time, SitT),声称/指称时间(Topic/Reference Time, TT),和说话时间(Utterance Time, UT)。在此基础上,我们进一步指出限定句的骨架的必有成分包括 CP, TP, AspP 和 VP(即 VP-e)。因此,本文讨论的句子之所以不合法,可以归因于骨架的不完整。同时,本文也检验了几种修补该类句子的手段,指出其目的多是加强了谓语的潜在的事件性,以满足限定事件句骨架的需要。由此,本文提出了一种分析汉语非自足句的新的理论框架。","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44803143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The phonological word in the Ningbo dialect","authors":"Xiangru Lyu","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.19004.LYU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.19004.LYU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper examines the domain of the prosodic word in the Ningbo dialect. The goal of this paper is to provide a\u0000 critical review of the studies on the prosodic word (PW) in various languages of the world, and to investigate the phonological\u0000 phenomena within the domain formed by morpho-syntactic words in the Ningbo dialect as well as discussing the role that the\u0000 prosodic word plays in the phonological rule application in the Ningbo dialect.\u0000 This paper provides a complete survey on various types of morpho-syntactic formation in the Ningbo dialect as well\u0000 as examining the application of phonological phenomena with reference to the different types of morpho-syntactic words. It will\u0000 show that the lexical tone sandhi rule (LTS) applies within the domain formed by the major types of morpho-syntactic words in\u0000 Ningbo dialect. However, pure phonological information may also affect the application of LTS.","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42078385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On embedded contrastive focus in Mandarin Chinese","authors":"Chih-hsiang Shu","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.19003.SHU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.19003.SHU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article investigates the previously undocumented focus-sensitiveness of certain scope-bearing expressions in\u0000 Mandarin, and argues that the syntactic effects of this property should be accommodated by a structure that involves multiple\u0000 dependencies and inherited dependencies. At the empirical side, it is shown that in Mandarin, certain quantificational expressions\u0000 as well as typical focusing adverbs have to occur at positions where they (i) c‑command and (ii) be as close as possible to the\u0000 contrastive foci that they associate with. The similarity to the typical association-with-focus configurations is captured under a\u0000 unified Agree analysis that incorporated previous variable-adjunction-site analysis for focusing particles in German, while the\u0000 additional dependencies in these structures are accounted for by multiple Agree and feature inheritance. This analysis is compared\u0000 with some alternative approaches, which do not have equal empirical coverage or require more complex theoretical assumptions.","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42422073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lisa Mojsin. 2016. Mastering the American Accent","authors":"Louise Zhang","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.00005.ZHA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.00005.ZHA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46437527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Q-adjectives in Mandarin and the interpretation of nominal phrases","authors":"I-Ta Chris Hsieh","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.18006.HSI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.18006.HSI","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In Mandarin, predicative quantity adjectives (henceforth, Q-adjectives; e.g.,\u0000 duō ‘many’ and shăo ‘few ’; henceforth, predicative Q-adjectives), but not ordinary\u0000 adjectives (e.g., cōngmi̇́ng ‘smart’), may influence the interpretation of the nominals they are predicates of;\u0000 while the Mandarin counterpart of speaking of the students one taught, Zhangsan many can (and only can) mean that\u0000 the students that Zhangsan taught are many, that of speaking of the students one taught, Zhangsan smart can only\u0000 mean that Zhangsan, but not the student/s that Zhangsan taught, is/are smart. This paper is to show how this previously unnoticed\u0000 contrast may be accounted for in current theories of degree syntax and semantics. The proposal is couched on Solt’s (2015) analysis of Q-adjectives, according to which measurement of cardinality is introduced via a\u0000 covert functional head rather than the Q-adjectives per se. The main idea is that in Mandarin the covert\u0000 functional head that introduces measurement of cardinality semantically encodes a contextually provided function from individuals\u0000 to individuals. Crucially, although the content of this function is context-dependent, various syntactic and semantic factors may\u0000 be at play.","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42768146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yang Yang, Stella Gryllia, Leticia Pablos, L. Cheng
{"title":"Clause type anticipation based on prosody in Mandarin","authors":"Yang Yang, Stella Gryllia, Leticia Pablos, L. Cheng","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.18004.YAN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.18004.YAN","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Mandarin wh-words such as shénme are wh-indeterminates, which\u0000 can have interrogative interpretations (‘what’) or non-interrogative interpretations (i.e., ‘something’), depending on the context\u0000 and licensors. For example, when diǎnr (‘a little’) appears right in front of a wh-word, the\u0000 string can have either a wh-question or a declarative interpretation (henceforth,\u0000 wh-declarative). Yang (2018) carried out a production study and the\u0000 results showed that wh-questions and wh-declaratives have different prosodic properties. To\u0000 investigate whether and when listeners make use of prosody to anticipate the clause type (i.e., question vs. declarative), we\u0000 conducted a sentence perception study and an audio-gating experiment. Results of the perception study and the gating experiment\u0000 show that (1) Participants can make use of prosody to differentiate the two clause types; (2) Starting from the onset of the first\u0000 word of the target sentence (wh-question/wh-declarative), participants already demonstrate a\u0000 preference for the clause type that was intended by the speaker. The current study also sheds light on the clausal typing\u0000 mechanism in Mandarin (e.g., how to mark a clause as a wh-question) by providing evidence of the role of prosody\u0000 in marking clause types in Mandarin.","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43669504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Encoding counterfactuality in Chinese, syntactically","authors":"Haiyong Liu","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.18002.LIU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.18002.LIU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this article, I demonstrate how past time-reference, modality, negation, conditional, and the causal\u0000 relationship between the protasis and the apodosis work together to generate counterfactuality in Chinese, syntactically. I study\u0000 two syntactic means that can help construe counterfactuality in Chinese. First, I study the case of the specialized complementizer\u0000 yaobushi ‘if not for’ based on Ippolito and Su (2009) by arguing\u0000 that the causal clausal relationship and the overt or covert modality are obligatory in yaobushi counterfactual;\u0000 in particular, I resort to the inherent negative entailment of the modal adverb cai ‘not until’ that satisfies\u0000 the exhaustive operator to account for the needed negation in cai apodosis. Second, I propose that a hypothetical\u0000 conditional clause with a past time-reference guarantees past counterfactuality in Chinese. I extend the morphological past-tense\u0000 exclusion operator for counterfactuality (Iatridou 2000) to a more general and more\u0000 pragmatic past time-reference to include tenseless languages like Chinese. I also show the special typological status of past\u0000 tense and past counterfactual.","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49397345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differentiating a construction into a structure","authors":"Hsin-I Hsieh","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.17009.HSI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.17009.HSI","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper proposes a reconciliation of two opposite perspectives on a syntactic configuration and its associated semantic\u0000 interpretation. Of these two, one is the view that a syntactic structure maps onto its semantic structure on a\u0000 strict compositionality condition, and one is the view that a syntactic construction is not strictly\u0000 compositional but has an inherent, endowed meaning, not compositionally derived. The proposed resolution attempts to settle the\u0000 disagreement by differentiating an endowed-meaning construction into a compatible compositional-meaning structure, which in\u0000 reverse is integrated into the original construction. As a result, structure and construction emerge as two sides of the same\u0000 coin, and the disagreement is resolved.","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43919727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PF deletion within Chinese DPs","authors":"Liching Livy Chiu","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.17007.CHI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.17007.CHI","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The aim of this paper is to study the empty categories which may exist inside the Chinese DP domain. The primary\u0000 discussion concerns an empty category which results from the deletion of NP. This paper introduces a novel\u0000 observation that equation sentences with a “Modifier- Empty-NP” object can only result from ellipsis, and cannot be a\u0000 base-generated pro-Form in Mandarin Chinese. I further show that the rich array of functional elements and modifications in the internal structure of the Chinese DP can aid linguists in ascertaining the domain over which deletion happens.","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45501310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}