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Jin, Jing. "The Syntax of the Abstract-type Measurement Construction in Mandarin Chinese." Studies in Chinese Linguistics 38, no. 1 (2017): 35–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/scl-2017-0003.

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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 defi

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Li, Haojie. "The Derivation of Verb-copying Sentence in Mandarin Chinese." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 4 (2019): 453. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0904.13.

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The verb-copying sentence is a special sentence in Chinese and has received extensive attention from the academic circles. Under the framework of Distributed Morphology and MP, the article makes a modified adjustment to the structure derived by phase from the narrow syntax through the post-syntactic “Feature Copying” operation, which is simply the ornamental adjustment to the resulting syntactic structure, to better explain the verb-copying sentence. This analysis does not require a specific syntactic structural hierarchy and is more natural in theory. It is also consistent with mainstream ide

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Lee-Kim, Sang-Im. "Syntax-based phonological asymmetries: The case of adjective reduplication in Mandarin Chinese." Lingua 179 (August 2016): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2015.12.015.

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Lin, Jo-Wang. "The syntax of zenmeyang ?how? and weishenme ?why? in Mandarin Chinese." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 1, no. 3 (1992): 293–331. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00130555.

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Gao, Yanmei, and Xiaohua Ren. "Syntactic parallelism and the co-production of syntactic units in Mandarin Chinese." Chinese Language and Discourse 12, no. 1 (2021): 109–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cld.00036.gao.

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Abstract Cross-linguistic studies on co-production of syntactic units and compound sentence formats have found that the location of predicates affects the projectability of the language, in that languages like English allow early projections while languages like Japanese later projections. In Mandarin Chinese, we found that syntactic parallelism often occurs before co-constructions, impacting the projectability of syntactic structures in one way or another. Based on the theories of dialogic syntax (Du Bois 2007, 2014) and the principles of interactional linguistics, this study explores the rel

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Han, Haiyan. "Effect of Topic-prominent Features of Mandarin Chinese on English Writing." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 10, no. 2 (2019): 353. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1002.18.

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Mandarin Chinese features a subject-verb-object word order and lacks grammatical agreement of any sort. It is basically a head-last language with the modifiers preceding the head word. Other prominent grammatical features include serial verb construction, resultative complement and the double nominative constructions. My paper focuses on the role of topic and subject in Mandarin, drawing on three views on Chinese syntactic structures, namely, SVO approach, topic-comment approach, and topic-prominence approach. A comparison is made among the different views and a conclusion is drawn that topic-

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Chou, Chao-Ting Tim. "Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Mandarin Chinese Wh-the-hell and Point-of-View Operator." Syntax 15, no. 1 (2011): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9612.2011.00157.x.

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Liu, Xingbing. "Review of He (2019): Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Syntax, semantics, discourse." Pragmatics and Society 11, no. 4 (2020): 674–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.00037.liu.

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Li, Wenshan. "The procedural syntax of fake modification constructions in Chinese." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 66, no. 1 (2021): 91–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2020.36.

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AbstractThe clitic morpheme de in Mandarin Chinese has various uses. Typically, it is cliticized to a phrase whether the phrase is nominal or adjectival; it can also occur between two noun phrases when there is no relation of semantic modification. The constructions that involve the latter use of de, known as fake modification constructions, have been theoretically characterized many a time. In the existing characterizations, the morpheme is treated either as a mysteriously inserted lexical item, a modification marker, or a genitive morpheme. The existing accounts suffer from a variety of theo

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Li, Peggy, David Barner, and Becky H. Huang. "Classifiers as Count Syntax: Individuation and Measurement in the Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese." Language Learning and Development 4, no. 4 (2008): 249–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475440802333858.

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Lin, Jingxia, and Jeeyoung Peck. "The syntax–semantics interface of multi-morpheme motion constructions in Chinese." Studies in Language 35, no. 2 (2011): 337–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.35.2.04lin.

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This study analyzes semantic constraints affecting the order of motion morphemes in Mandarin Chinese multi-morpheme motion constructions (MMMCs, e.g. zǒu-jìn fángjiān ‘walk into the room’ (lit.) ‘walk-enter room’ vs. *jìn-zǒu (lit.) ‘enter-walk’). We classify Chinese motion morphemes into four types based on recent study on “scale structure”. Then, we propose an implicational scalar hierarchy formed by the four types of morphemes that can be used to predict the order of motion morphemes in Chinese MMMCs. Our corpus studies demonstrate that the hierarchy can explain the morpheme order of MMMCs

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SATO, YOSUKE. "Comparative syntax of argument ellipsis in languages without agreement: A case study with Mandarin Chinese." Journal of Linguistics 55, no. 3 (2018): 643–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226718000403.

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This paper investigates the cross-linguistic distribution of argument ellipsis (AE) with an emphasis on Chinese, an Asian language well-known for its lack of overt morphological agreement. It is observed in the literature that Japanese permits AE in both null subject and null object positions whereas Chinese permits it in null object positions, but not in null subject positions. Adopting Saito’s (2007) hypothesis that the presence of $\unicode[STIX]{x03C6}$-feature agreement associated with v or T blocks AE, Miyagawa (2013) and Takahashi (2014) argue that the absence of subject AE in Chinese f

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Woo, I.-hao. "On preverbal zai in Mandarin Chinese: its progressive and prepositional functions." Linguistics 59, no. 3 (2021): 513–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0044.

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Abstract This study revisits the linguistic properties of preverbal zai in Mandarin Chinese. Specifically, it examines the syntax of a prepositional phrase headed by zai functioning as an adjunct, as the main predicate of a sentence with a continuous reading, as well as a sentence containing zai with a progressive reading. It is argued that there is only one zai and that it always functions as a preposition selecting either a Locative Phrase (LP) or a Zeit Phrase (ZP) as its complement. The study also claims that the different aspectual readings of sentences containing zai are a result of the

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Jin, Jing. "A revisit to the [Num-Cl-Modifier-de-N]/ [Modifier-de-Num-Cl‑N] variation in Mandarin Chinese." Language and Linguistics / 語言暨語言學 21, no. 2 (2020): 213–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lali.00061.jin.

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Abstract This paper investigates the licensing condition of the [Num(eral)-Cl(assifier)-Mod(ifier)-de-N(oun)] / [Mod-de-Num-Cl‑N] variation in Mandarin Chinese. It is observed that this variation represents a complex interface phenomenon in the nominal domain, which is subject to the semantic condition concerning the i(ndividual)-level/s(tage)-level nature of the modifier contained on the one hand, and the discourse-related condition concerning contrastive topic (ct) on the other. Based on this, at the syntax-semantics interface level, this paper proposes a division of the syntactic domain of

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Liu, Dan. "The Acquisition of English Word Stress by Mandarin EFL Learners." English Language Teaching 10, no. 12 (2017): 196. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n12p196.

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Compared with the study of acquisition of syntax and morphology, there is a relative lack of research on the acquisition of phonology, the L2 acquisition of word stress in particular. This paper investigates the production of word stress by 70 Chinese college students in their reading aloud. Altogether 350 minutes’ recordings were collected and coded. The result shows that improper assignment of word stress most likely occurs in two-syllable words and three-syllable words and on the first syllable. The factors which account for these problems are learners’ insensitivity to syllabic structure o

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Zhang, Niina Ning. "Unifying two general licensors of completive adverbials in syntax." Linguistics 55, no. 2 (2017): 371–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2016-0042.

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Abstract It is well-known that an agent-oriented adverbial is syntactically licensed by a functional projection in which an agent is base generated. How is a completive adverbial, such as in three minutes, licensed? It has been noted that such an adverbial is licensed by either a resultative or an incremental theme in the form of a nominal that is quantified by a numeral (and a classifier in numeral classifier languages). Both licensing conditions encode a bounded scale. This paper argues that the nominal in the special form can be analyzed as an element hosted in a ResultP, and thus the two c

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Hawkins, Roger. "Knowledge of English verb phrase ellipsis by speakers of Arabic and Chinese." Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2, no. 4 (2012): 404–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lab.2.4.03haw.

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English verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) involves both syntactic and discourse information. The present study investigates knowledge of these properties by L1 speakers of Arabic and Mandarin Chinese. Three issues are addressed. Can the participants acquire syntactic properties of VPE that differ from their L1s and are under-determined by positive evidence? Can they acquire all of the syntactic properties of VPE that differ from their L1s? Can they successfully integrate their knowledge of the syntax of VPE with discourse information determining felicity? Results from a sentence completion judgement

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Mai, Ziyin, and Boping Yuan. "Uneven reassembly of tense, telicity and discourse features in L2 acquisition of the Chinese shì … de cleft construction by adult English speakers." Second Language Research 32, no. 2 (2016): 247–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658315623323.

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This article reports an empirical study investigating L2 acquisition of the Mandarin Chinese shì … de cleft construction by adult English-speaking learners within the framework of the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (Lardiere, 2009). A Sentence Completion task, an interpretation task, two Acceptability Judgement tasks, and a felicity ranking task were administered to learners with intermediate and advanced Chinese proficiency ( n = 76). The results reveal an initial mapping between the target Chinese structure and the English it-cleft construction. The relevant tense, telicity and discourse feat

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Luke, K. K., and Wei Zhang. "Insertion as a self-repair device and its interactional motivations in Chinese conversation." Chinese Language and Discourse 1, no. 2 (2010): 153–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cld.1.2.01luk.

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Conversational repair has been studied for its organizational features, relationship with syntax, and interactional functions. This paper focuses on one particular type of same-turn self-repair, namely, insertions. Examining in detail a collection of insertions culled from a corpus of naturally occurring conversational data in Mandarin Chinese, an investigation has been carried out on the forms and functions of insertions in their sequential contexts. In terms of form and organization, two kinds of insertion are identified: local and global. ‘Local’ insertions operate on trouble-sources locate

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Luke, K. K., and Adams Bodomo. "A comparative study of the semantics of serial verb constructions in Dagaare and Cantonese." Languages in Contrast 3, no. 2 (2001): 165–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.3.2.02luk.

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The serial verb construction (SVC) is a productive syntactic phenomenon in many Asian and African languages and has been the subject of various studies. Many of these studies are, however, mainly based on data from the individual Asian and African languages or language groups (e.g. Jayaseelan 1996 for Malayalam; Schiller 1991 for Khmer; Chang 1990 for Mandarin; Bodomo 1997, 1998 for Dagaare and Akan; and Awoyale 1988 for Yoruba). There is a near lack of comparative studies involving Asian and African languages with regards to SVCs. Given the wide variety of syntactic and semantic manifestation

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Gao, Jingyi. "Karl August Hermanni hiina-soome-eesti keelevõrdlus ning kehtivad ja kehtetud etümoloogiad parandustega." Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics 10, no. 2 (2020): 45–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2019.10.2.03.

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Selles töös on üle vaadatud Karl August Hermanni 1895. aastal ilmunud artikkel, milles ta võrdles mandariinihiina keelt uurali keeltega, eriti eesti ja soome keelega, ning järeldas, et need keeled on omavahel suguluses. Hermanni toodud tõendid fonoloogia, morfoloogia ja süntaksi alal on mitmesugused. Hermanni leitud mõistete sarnasused on originaalsed. Selle töö autori hinnangul on Hermanni töös välja toodud kaheksast etümoloogilisest võrdlusest viis kehtivad, üks kahtlane, kaks kehtetud. Autor on täiendanud kehtivaid võrdlusi ja parandanud kehtetuid võrdlusi. Nende etümoloogiliste võrdluste t

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Shyu, Shu-ing. "The scope of even." Language and Linguistics / 語言暨語言學 19, no. 1 (2018): 156–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lali.00006.shy.

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Abstract One of the issues in the study of even is concerned with the ambiguous scope interpretations contributed by the focus adverb even. There have been two main camps: the lexical approach and the scope approach. Unlike English, which does not have distinct lexical items for even, Mandarin Chinese (Chinese hereafter) utilizes two constructions to express the notion of even: (1) The lian … dou ‘including … all’ construction, and (2) focus adverbs, such as shenzhi. This paper aims to demonstrate that the lian … dou construction expresses the typical implicatures in even sentences predicted b

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SATO, YOSUKE. "Argument ellipsis in Colloquial Singapore English and the Anti-Agreement Hypothesis." Journal of Linguistics 50, no. 2 (2013): 365–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226713000303.

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This paper provides new data from Colloquial Singapore English (CSE) showing a hitherto unnoticed subject–object asymmetry: empty objects, but not empty subjects, exhibit sloppy/quantificational readings. According to a recent theory of argument ellipsis in Japanese/Korean (Oku 1998; S. Kim 1999; Takahashi 2007, 2008a, b, 2010), these readings obtain as a result of the LF-Copy of an overt argument from a full-fledged clause onto the corresponding empty argument position in an elliptical clause. Şener & Takahashi (2010) and Takahashi (2010) hypothesize that this operation is blocked by ϕ-ag

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Saillard, Claire. "Adjectival modification in Truku Seediq." Language and Linguistics / 語言暨語言學 20, no. 4 (2019): 602–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lali.00050.sai.

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Abstract This paper investigates the position of adjectives in noun phrases in Truku Seediq, proposing that the two documented positions correspond to different semantics as well as a difference in syntax. While post-nominal adjectives, corresponding to basic word-order in Truku Seediq, may be either restrictive or descriptive, pre-nominal adjectives, seen as an innovation, are semantically restrictive. This paper also argues for a difference in syntactic structure for both kinds of adjectives, restrictive adjectives heading their own projection while descriptive adjectives are bare adjectives

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Wang, Leihong. "An Event Structure Analysis of Object-oriented Adverbial Clauses." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 1 (2019): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0901.15.

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In Mandarin Chinese, there exists such adverbial clause as “Li Zhen cuicuide zhale yipan huashengmi” (Li Zhen fried a dish of peanuts crispy), in which the adverbial modifies the predicate verb but semantically orients to the object. This kind adverbial clause can be formulated as “NPs+APo+De+VP+NPo=NP+VP+O and O is characterized by the adverbial”. The object-oriented adverbial clause is a mismatched syntax-semantics phenomenon, with the mapping between form and meaning distorted. Many previous studies have proposed not fully identical analyses for the syntactic distribution, pragmatic motivat

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Tran, Thuan. "Non-canonical word order and temporal reference in Vietnamese." Linguistics 59, no. 1 (2021): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0256.

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Abstract The paper revisits Duffield’s (2007) (Duffield, Nigel. 2007. Aspects of Vietnamese clausal structure: Separating tense from assertion. Linguistics 45(4). 765–814) analysis of the correlation between the position of a ‘when’-phrase and the temporal reference of a bare sentence in Vietnamese. Bare sentences in Vietnamese, based on (Smith, Carlota S. & Mary S. Erbaugh. 2005. Temporal interpretation in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics 43(4). 713–756), are argued to obtain their temporal interpretation from their aspectual composition, and the default temporal reference: bounded events ar

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Pan, Victor Junnan. "Mandarin peripheral construals at the syntax-discourse interface." Linguistic Review 32, no. 4 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2015-0005.

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AbstractInspired by the split-CP hypothesis, different orders of the functional projections in the left periphery are proposed for Chinese. Based on previous studies, this paper proposes the following hierarchy for Chinese: AttitudeP1 > AttitudeP2 > Special QuestionP > Illocutionary ForceP >

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Law, Paul. "The wh/q-polarity adverb daodi in Mandarin Chinese and the syntax of focus." Linguistic Review 25, no. 3-4 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tlir.2008.009.

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Feng, Shuo. "The computation and suspension of presuppositions by L1-Mandarin Chinese L2-English speakers." Second Language Research, February 21, 2021, 026765832199387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658321993873.

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The Interface Hypothesis proposes that second language (L2) learners, even at highly proficient levels, often fail to integrate information at the external interfaces where grammar interacts with other cognitive systems. While much early L2 work has focused on the syntax–discourse interface or scalar implicatures at the semantics–pragmatics interface, the present article adds to this line of research by exploring another understudied phenomenon at the semantics–pragmatics interface, namely, presuppositions. Furthermore, this study explores both inference computation and suspension via a covere

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Tantucci, Vittorio, and Aiqing Wang. "Resonance as an Applied Predictor of Cross-Cultural Interaction: Constructional Priming in Mandarin and American English Interaction." Applied Linguistics, April 27, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/applin/amab012.

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Abstract In Dialogic syntax (cf. Du Bois 2014; Tantucci et al. 2018), naturalistic interaction is inherently grounded in resonance, viz. the catalytic activation of affinities across turns (Du Bois and Giora 2014). Resonance occurs dynamically when interlocutors creatively coconstruct utterances that are formally and phonetically similar to the utterance of a prior speaker. In this study, we argue that such similarity can inform the machine learning prediction of linguistic and cross-cultural diversity. We compared two sets of 1,000 exchanges involving (dis)-agreement from the two balanced Cal

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