Varieties of Alternatives : Focus Particles and wh-Expressions in Mandarin /: Focus Particles and wh-Expressions in Mandarin. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mingming Liu.
• Authors: Liu, Mingming
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction1.1. The Cast of Characters 1.2. Main Themes 1.3. Overview of Things to Come Chapter 2. Background2.1. Semantic Assumptions2.2. Syntactic AssumptionsChapter 3. Varieties of Alternatives: Mandarin Focus Particles3.1. Introduction 3.2. Deriving 'Ambiguities' through Alternatives3.3. Regulating Ambiguities3.4. Connection to Previous Work3.5. ConclusionChapter 4. More Exclusives4.1. Introduction4.2. Exclusive (Dis)harmonies4.3. Too Many Onlys4.4. ConclusionChapter 5. Mandarin Wh-conditionals: Challenges and Facts5.1. Introduction 5.2. Basics of Wh-conditionals 5.3. Previous Analyses . .5.4. Semantic Properties of Wh-conditionals5.5. ConclusionChapter 6. Proposal-A: Wh-conditionals as Interrogative Conditionals6.1. Developing the Proposal6.2. Explaining the Properties in Detail6.3. ConclusionChapter 7. Proposal-B: Wh-conditionals as Interrogative Dependency7.1. Introduction7.2. Dependency as Relations between Questions 7.3. The Significance of Short Answers 7.4. Questions as Sets of Structured Meanings 7.5. Wh-conditionals Encode a Special Dependency Relation 7.6. Explaining the Properties 7.7. Comparison, Conclusion and Implication7.5. Wh-conditionals Encode a Special Dependency Relation 7.6. Explaining the Properties7.7. Comparison, Conclusion and ImplicationChapter 8. Concluding Remarks.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (174 pages)
• Subjects: Linguistics; Semantics; Chinese language; Foreign Language Study -- Chinese; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- Semantics; Semantics, discourse analysis, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811062087
• Related ISBNs: 9789811062070
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