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Wh-Words, Non-interrogative Use of
(2,103 words)
Wh-words (i.e., question words) such as
shéi 誰 ‘who’ and
shénme 甚麼 ‘what’ do not only have interrogative readings (Wh-questions, Modern), they also have non-interrogative readings (Chao 1968, Lǚ 1980). Aside from an indefinite interpretation, they can also have a universal interpretation or a free-choice interpretation. Which interpretation the
wh-words have depends on a couple of factors: the environment in which they appear and the type of
wh-words they are. 1. Indefinite Interpretation
Wh-words are typically interpreted as indefinites in
yes-
no questions and conditiona…
Date:
2017-03-02
Dōu 都
(4,579 words)
Dōu 都 is most commonly considered to be a universal or a distributive operator. Discussions on
dōu generally center upon its association with expressions preceding it as in (1) (See Focus for discussion on the
lián… dōu 連...都 construction). 1. a. 那三個學生都來了。 Nà sān ge xuéshēng dōu lái-le. that three clf student dou come-prf ‘Those three students all came.’ b. 他天天都遲到。 Tā tiāntiān dōu chí-dào. 3sg day.day dou late-arrive ‘He is late every day.’ However,
dōu can also interact with expressions which follow it, most commonly a
wh-phrase (2a)…
Date:
2017-03-02
Verb Copying
(1,191 words)
The term verb copying refers to the phenomenon in which we find two instantiations of the same verb in one sentence. It can be found when a sentence has a direct object as well as a postverbal adverbial constituent, which can range from duration/frequency expressions to directional, locative and resultative constituents (see Li and Thompson 1981, Tai 1999), as illustrated in (1) (examples adapted from Tai 1999). 1. a. 我睡覺睡了三個鐘頭。 Wǒ shuì-jiào shuì-le sān ge zhōngtóu. (Duration) 1sg sleep-sleep sleep-asp three clf hour ‘I slept for three hours.’ b…
Date:
2017-03-02
Donkey Anaphora
(2,557 words)
“Donkey anaphora” refers to the relation between pronouns such as
it and
he and their antecedents in sentences like those in (1). 1. a. Every farmer who ons a donkey beats it. b. If a farmer owns a donkey, he beats is. These pronouns do not have a referential pronominal interpretation like that of
it in (2), where
it refers to the cat mentioned in the previous sentence. 2. John owns a cat. Mary likes it very much. In the case of (1),
it does not refer to a particular donkey and
he does not refer to a particular farmer. The preferred reading is that every farmer who owns at least o…
Date:
2017-03-02
