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Why Plurality of the Possessor Matters in Mandarin Chinese Inalienable Possession 为什么普通话中占有人的多元性很重要

Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scl-2019-0005

Haiyong Liu

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Subject-Object Asymmetry in the Production of Relative Clauses in Cantonese 广东话关系从句中主宾不对称现象

Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scl-2019-0006

Jiaying Huang, C. Donati

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Appearance and Existence in Mandarin Chinese 普通话中的表象与存在

Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scl-2019-0004

N. Zhang

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The Interpretation of Null Subjects in a Radical Pro-drop Language: Topic Chains and Discourse-semantic Requirements in Chinese 激进亲降语中空主语的解释:话题链与汉语语篇语义要求

Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/scl-2019-0001

M. Frascarelli, Marco Casentini

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An Enthymematic Account of the Deduction of the Negative Meaning of the Chinese Shenme-based Rhetorical Question Construction 汉语“神似”修辞问题结构否定意义演绎的一种热释

Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/scl-2019-0002

Chen Dong, Dawei Jin

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Nonlinguistic Factors that Affect the Degree of Foreign Accent in Second Language Mandarin 影响第二语言普通话外国口音程度的非语言因素

Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/scl-2019-0003

L. Freeborn, J. Rogers

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引用次数: 4

A Cartographic Analysis of the Syntactic Structure of Mandarin Ba 普通话“吧”句法结构的制图分析

Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scl-2018-0005

Yangyu Sun

引用次数: 4

Derivation of the Apparent Narrow Scope of Sentence-Final Particles in Chinese: A Reply to Erlewine (2017) 汉语句末助词明显狭窄范围的衍生——对Erlewine(2017)的回复

Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scl-2018-0004

V. Pan

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引用次数: 11

Mandarin Yě and Scalarity 普通话YŞ与标量

Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scl-2018-0006

Zhaole Yang

引用次数: 1

AP-de (地) Adverbs in Mandarin 普通话中的副词

Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/scl-2018-0001

R. Larson

引用次数: 3