Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese
eBook - ePub

Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese

System and Theory behind cai, jiu, dou and ye

  1. 324 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese

System and Theory behind cai, jiu, dou and ye

About this book

This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái, jiù, dou and ye are, in a specific use type, shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm.This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar. It caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information-structure, focus and contrastive topics, and quantification. The outstanding characteristic of this book, viz. its effortless integration of findings from formal semantics without heavy formal load, makes it rewarding reading both for linguists with a less formal background, and for researchers with some knowledge of formal semantics.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. FOCUS AND BACKGROUND MARKING IN MANDARIN CHINESE
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Tables and Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations/Conventions
  9. 1 INTRODUCTION
  10. 2 USE TYPES
  11. 3 TRIGGERS AND CONSTRAINTS: WHERE PARAMETRIC CÁI, JIÙ, DŌU AND YĔ MUST (NOT) BE USED
  12. 4 CÁI, JIÙ, DŌU, YĔ AND FOCUS SEMANTICS
  13. 5 PROBLEMS AND REFINEMENTS
  14. 6 CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK
  15. 7 REFERENCES
  16. 8 INDEX