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Parameter Preservation at the Syntax-PF Interface: The Ba Construction Revisited 语法- pf接口的参数保存:重新审视Ba结构
Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/scl-2018-0002
Chih-hsiang Shu
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引用次数: 3
Shén (神) in Modern Chinese 在现代汉语中是“shimen”
Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/scl-2018-0003
Hsiu-Ying Liu, Zhen-Tong Hsieh
{"title":"Shén (神) in Modern Chinese","authors":"Hsiu-Ying Liu, Zhen-Tong Hsieh","doi":"10.2478/scl-2018-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2018-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In modern Chinese, a new degree adverb shén 神 is emerging. Expressions such as shénhăochī 神好吃 and shényǒuqù 神有趣 are found in colloquial Chinese, and they even appear as headlines to get readers’ attention. Shén originally refers to the dominator and creator of the universe. In modern Chinese, along with the original meaning, people frequently use shén to modify things (e.g., shén jīyīn 神基因) or actions (e.g., shén huí 神回). How many senses does shén have? How did shén derive the use of degree adverb? The paper targets on shén in modern Chinese, aiming to study its senses, to work out the relations among the various usages, and to find out how it generated the use of degree adverb. The conclusion shows that the senses of shén were derived from its original meaning either directly or indirectly through reanalysis, inference, metaphorization, and metonymization. The use of degree adverb was generated through metaphorization and reanalysis.","PeriodicalId":52094,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Chinese Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42198198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Chinese Motion-Directional Construction: A Conceptual and Cognitive Analysis 汉语动作定向结构:概念与认知分析
Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/scl-2017-0006
Ronald Fong
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引用次数: 0
Remarks on the Final-over-Final Condition: A View from Chinese Head-Final Structures 从汉语首末结构看末末条件
Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/scl-2017-0005
W. Liao
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引用次数: 4
Sluicing, Sprouting and Missing Objects 水闸,发芽和丢失的对象
Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/scl-2017-0004
Y. Li, Ting-Chi Wei
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引用次数: 6
The Syntax of the Abstract-type Measurement Construction in Mandarin Chinese 汉语摘要型测量结构的句法研究
Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-06-27 DOI: 10.1515/scl-2017-0003
Jing Jin
{"title":"The Syntax of the Abstract-type Measurement Construction in Mandarin Chinese","authors":"Jing Jin","doi":"10.1515/scl-2017-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2017-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigates a special sub-type of measurement construction in Mandarin Chinese, namely the [Num-measure word-de-N] construction where the N is an abstract dimension-denoting noun. Evidence is presented to show that the abstract-type [Num-measure word-de-N] should be fundamentally distinguished from the quantifying-/modifying-type [Num-measure word-de-N], in which the [Num-measure word] sequence serves to quantize/modify a semantically concrete, entity-denoting N. At the interpretive level, this paper claims that the abstracttype [Num-measure word-de-N] is semantically definite. At the syntactic level, a clausal analysis within the framework of the Predicate Inversion theory is pursued to account for the derivation of the abstract-type measurement construction. Last, it is proposed that the word order distinction between the Chinese abstracttype measurement construction, which is N-final, and its English counterpart, where the N linearly precedes [Num-measure word], can be explained in terms of a parametric variation with respect to the (non-)application of N-raising after Predicate Inversion.","PeriodicalId":52094,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Chinese Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/scl-2017-0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45829330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
You Sluice and hai Modification in Chinese 游闸及其汉语修饰
Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-06-27 DOI: 10.1515/scl-2017-0001
Ting-Chi Wei
{"title":"You Sluice and hai Modification in Chinese","authors":"Ting-Chi Wei","doi":"10.1515/scl-2017-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2017-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper argues that you ‘have’ sluice is a variant of pseudosluicing, akin to shi ‘be’ sluice in Chinese. You sluice can be analyzed as a base-generated structure [pro you ‘have’ wh-phrase], consisting of a subject pro, a verb you ‘have’, and a wh-phrase, having nothing to do with movement and deletion. In this simple clause, the pro can either refer to a nominal antecedent or an event antecedent; you ‘have’ mainly denotes possessive or existential readings as well as extended attributive uses. This analysis further reveals how circum-phrase chule … yiwei ‘besides’ semantically and syntactically interacts with hai ‘still’ in you sluice to express else modification in English sluicing derived by movement and deletion.","PeriodicalId":52094,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Chinese Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47234896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
A Note on Reference to Kinds in Mandarin: the N-leikind Compound 汉语中种类参考的注释:N-leikind化合物
Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-06-27 DOI: 10.1515/scl-2017-0002
Xuping Li
{"title":"A Note on Reference to Kinds in Mandarin: the N-leikind Compound","authors":"Xuping Li","doi":"10.1515/scl-2017-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2017-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This squib examines a special kind-referring expression in Mandarin Chinese, the N-leikind compound. We show that like Mandarin bare nouns, N-leikind compounds also denote kinds, but they can only be instantiated by sets of (sub) kind entities at type , and not sets of individuals at type . Specifically, those kind entities belong to basic-level categories in some folk taxonomy. We claim that N-lei is the nominalization counterpart of the classifier phrase lei-N, and it denotes superkinds, which are instantiated by sets of subkind entities. Accordingly, Mandarin bare nouns are comparable to bare plurals in English, whereas N-lei is comparable to definite singulars in English.","PeriodicalId":52094,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Chinese Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/scl-2017-0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44026229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Intonation and Particles as Speech Act Modifiers: A Syntactic Analysis 语调和助词作为言语行为修饰语的句法分析
Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/scl-2016-0005
Johannes M. Heim, Hermann Keupdjio, Z. Lam, Adriana Osa-Gómez, Sonja Thoma, Martina Wiltschko
{"title":"Intonation and Particles as Speech Act Modifiers: A Syntactic Analysis","authors":"Johannes M. Heim, Hermann Keupdjio, Z. Lam, Adriana Osa-Gómez, Sonja Thoma, Martina Wiltschko","doi":"10.1515/scl-2016-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study investigates how discourse particles and intonation contribute to the modification of speech act. In particular, it focuses on the interplay between the speaker’s and the addressee’s commitment toward the proposition in assertions, biased questions, and requests for confirmation. A syntactic analysis is proposed, in which speaker commitment and call on addressee are represented as two functional projections of the speech act structure. Data from nontonal (Canadian English) and tonal languages (Cantonese and Medumba) are analyzed for cross-linguistic comparison. In Canadian English, the particle “eh” and rising intonation are associated with speaker commitment and call on addressee, respectively. In Cantonese, a single particle associates with these. In Medumba, the two positions are occupied by two distinct particles. This neo-performative approach toward speech act structure differs from Ross’s 1970 original insight by positing a high functional layer called grounding, rather than a higher matrix clause of the familiar type.","PeriodicalId":52094,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Chinese Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/scl-2016-0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67005494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 22
Raising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian Languages 上升还是下降?——以汉语和东南亚语言真性ACQ为例
Studies in Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/scl-2016-0004
Gong Cheng, Zhao Yi, Jianguo Xiong
{"title":"Raising or Lowering?—A Case Study of Alethic ACQ in Chinese and Southeast Asian Languages","authors":"Gong Cheng, Zhao Yi, Jianguo Xiong","doi":"10.1515/scl-2016-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present paper proposes a morphological lowering analysis for the structure associated with alethic ACQ, a postverbal morpheme capable of denoting the modality of ability and possibility in Chinese as well as many Southeast Asian languages. Built in the framework of distributed morphology, we suggest that ACQ is base-generated in a preverbal node as a modal element and lowers to a postverbal position during its derivation on the PF branch. We compare and contrast the proposed lowering account with the other model of analysis, the raising analysis, and demonstrate that the lowering account is superior both conceptually and empirically.","PeriodicalId":52094,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Chinese Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67005444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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