Lingua Sinica
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Semantic relation identification for consecutive predicative constituents in Chinese
Tập 3 Số 1 - 2017
Modality and aspect and the thematic role of the subject in Late Archaic and Han period Chinese: obligation and necessity
Tập 3 - Trang 1-35 - 2017
In this paper, the interplay of modal markers with the lexical aspect of the
verb in Han period Chinese is at issue. Abraham and Leiss (Modality-aspect
interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, 2008) propose a strong and
possibly universal relation between the verbal aspect and either the
root/deontic or the epistemic reading of a modal verb based on data from the
Germanic languages. In ...
Age-related differences in the acceptability of non-canonical word orders in Mandarin Chinese
Tập 4 - Trang 1-25 - 2018
Prior theoretical and experimental work has demonstrated that the
subject-object-verb (SOV) word order is more restricted and more difficult to
process than the object-subject-verb (OSV) word order in Chinese. However, few
studies have investigated the actual acceptability of non-canonical, verb-final
word orders among native speakers. In this study, we conducted a paper-based
survey with a group ...
Notes on Chinese grammar and ontology: the endurant/perdurant dichotomy and Mandarin D-M compounds
Tập 1 - Trang 1-22 - 2015
Y. R. Chao’s (1955) ‘Notes on Chinese Grammar and Logic’ illustrated how logical
relations are encoded in Chinese Grammar and his Chinese grammar (Chao 1968)
introduced the grammatical category of Measure (M) in Determiner-Measure (D-M)
Compounds. Subsequent studies of Chinese typically adopt the general linguistic
term of classifier (Aikenvald 2003) and either refer to Chao’s M as a classifier
(e...
Exhaustive semantic activation for reading ambiguous verbs in Chinese sentences
Tập 1 - Trang 1-23 - 2015
Studies of lexical ambiguity resolution in sentential contexts have not
sufficiently considered the relatedness among an ambiguous word’s meanings as a
predicting factor for semantic activation. To better understand the relation
between lexical access and discourse processing and the effect of semantic
relatedness on lexical ambiguity resolution, a cross-modal lexical priming
experiment focusing o...
Grammatical roles, Coherence Relations, and the interpretation of pronouns in Chinese
Tập 2 - Trang 1-20 - 2016
This paper reports on an experimental study of the interpretation of pronouns in
Chinese which provides additional support for the proposal in Yang et al. (1999,
2003) that the resolution of pronominal reference in Chinese is more influenced
by syntactic information than often assumed in approaches to discourse anaphora
in Chinese such as Li and Thompson (1979), Givon (1983), Chen (1986),
Christen...
Interpreting 都 to 1 TO in earlier Southern Min texts
Tập 1 - Trang 1-18 - 2015
The paper explores the polyfunctional word 都 to 1 TO in early Southern Min texts
dating back to the sixteenth century or even earlier. Unlike 都 dou 1 in
Mandarin, which mainly functions as a maximality operator, 都 to 1 in Southern
Min is chiefly used as a modal particle expressing a concessive meaning or
meaning of unexpectedness as a type of conventional implicature rather than
pragmatic inferenc...
High applicatives are not high enough: a cartographic solution
Tập 4 - Trang 1-21 - 2018
This paper examines a cluster of phenomena in Mandarin Chinese, which may
collectively be characterized as “affective constructions”. Based on the
diversified and sometimes hybrid nature of these affective construals, we argue
that the usual dichotomy between high and low applicatives is not enough to
capture their syntactic and semantic idiosyncrasies. We will need a more
elaborate theory to map ...
Non-root modals for the past and temporal shifting in Mandarin Chinese
Tập 1 - Trang 1-22 - 2015
This paper has two major goals. First, it provides a detailed empirical
description of how the epistemic and metaphysical readings of the “non-root
modal + Perf(ect) have” construction in English (e.g., John might have won the
game yesterday) are expressed in Mandarin Chinese. The two readings both involve
non-root modals for the past, i.e., non-root modals with either a past temporal
perspective ...