Semantics of Chinese Questions
eBook - ePub

Semantics of Chinese Questions

An Interface Approach

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Semantics of Chinese Questions

An Interface Approach

About this book

Semantics of Chinese Questions is the first major study of Chinese questions, especially wh-questions, within the framework of Alternative Semantics.

It takes an interface approach to study the syntax, semantics, and phonology of questions and proposes a phonological scope-marking strategy in Chinese questions, based upon experimental data. It also incorporates historical linguistic data regarding the grammaticalization of sentence-final particles such as –ne and –ma to study the formal diachronic semantics of questions. Primarily suitable for scholars in the field of Chinese linguistics, this book makes new theoretical contributions to the study of questions.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
eBook ISBN
9781351021562
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. List of symbols
  11. List of abbreviations
  12. 1 Introduction
  13. 2 LF movement and binding in Chinese questions
  14. 3 Alternative semantics of questions in Chinese
  15. 4 Scope-marking of questions by phonological prominence
  16. 5 Revisiting the argument–adjunct asymmetry
  17. 6 A Distributional account of existential wh-indefinites
  18. 7 Concluding remarks
  19. Appendix
  20. References
  21. Index

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