Hongyuan Dong

Semantics of Chinese Questions

An Interface Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

Semantics of Chinese Questions is the first major study of Chinese questions, especially wh-questions, within the framework of Alternative Semantics. It takes an interface approach to study the syntax, semantics, and phonology of questions and proposes a phonological scope-marking strategy in Chinese questions, based upon experimental data. It also incorporates historical linguistic data regarding the grammaticalization of sentence-final particles such as -ne and -ma to study the formal diachronic semantics of questions. Primarily suitable for scholars in the field of Chinese linguistics, this book makes new theoretical contributions to the study of questions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9781032401744
• ISBN-10: 1032401745
• Artikelnr.: 69898729

Autorenporträt

Hongyuan Dong is Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics in the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures at the George Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of symbols
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
1. Main ideas
2. Questions and Chinese questions
3. The meaning of questions
4. Inquisitive semantics
5. Chapter overview
Chapter 2 LF Movement and Binding in Chinese Questions
2.1 Chinese wh-in-situ
2.2 The LF movement theory
2.3 The binding theory
2.4 The status of the particle -ne
2.5 The diachronic semantics of the particle -ne
Chapter 3 Alternative Semantics of Questions in Chinese
3.1 The alternative semantics theory
3.2 Manner and causal wh-questions
3.3 Verbal "zenme" questions
3.4 A-not-A questions
3.5 Alternative questions
3.6 Polar questions
3.7 The grammaticalization of the particle -ma
3.8 Alternative semantics and inquisitive semantics
Chapter 4 Scope Marking of Questions by Phonological Prominence
4.1 Scope marking of questions phonologically in Chinese
4.2 Experimental data for the scope-marking strategy
4.3 Cross-linguistic comparisons of scope marking of wh-questions
4.4 Focus and wh-pronouns
4.5 Scope isomorphism of focus and its computational derivation
Chapter 5 Revisiting the Argument-Adjunct Asymmetry
5.1 Argument-adjunct asymmetry of Chinese wh-in-situ
5.2 The nominal-adverbial asymmetry
5.3 Operator movement and its problems
5.4 A correlational account of island sensitivity
5.5 A phonological reason for adjoining to scope positions
5.6 Island constraints of A-not-A questions explained
Chapter 6 A Distributional Account of Existential Wh-indefinites
6.1 Distributions of interrogative and existential wh-indefinites
6.2 Alternative semantics and existential readings of wh-indefinites
6.3 Syntactic and phonological factors that disfavor existential readings
6.4 Pragmatic reasoning and licensors of existential readings
6.5 Scope variability of Chinese existential wh-indefinites
Chapter 7 Concluding Remarks
7.1 Theoretical contributions of the interface approach
7.2 Limitations and further research directions
Appendix
References
Index