Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese
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Concessive Conditionals
contrastive topics
Descriptive Generalization
Emphatic Assertions
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Focus Background Structure
Focus Particle
Focus Quantification
Focus Semantics
focus-background agreement system
formal semantics
information structure
interact
Interacting Focus
Intransitive Verbs
item
linguistic particles
Mandarin Data
Mandarin syntax
Modal Verb
negative
Negative Polarity Item
Nuclear Scope
Ordering Source
parametric
Parametric Words
particle
polarity
Polarity Items
Property Thing
quantification
quantification in linguistics
Quantificational Expression
Quantificational Type
Sentence Final Particles
structure
Subordinate Clause
universal
Universal Quantification
words
Product details
- ISBN 9780415315968
- Weight: 760g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Nov 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái, jiù, dou and ye are, in a specific use type, shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm.
This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar. It caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information-structure, focus and contrastive topics, and quantification. The outstanding characteristic of this book, viz. its effortless integration of findings from formal semantics without heavy formal load, makes it rewarding reading both for linguists with a less formal background, and for researchers with some knowledge of formal semantics.
Daniel P. Hole, born in 1969, holds an M.A. degree in Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics and Philosophy, and a Ph.D. degree in Linguistics. Following studies in Munich, Cologne, Berlin and Taibei, he now works as an assistant lecturer at the University of Munich. His research interests include information-structure, typology and diathesis alternations, with emphasis put on the integration of results from formal semantics.
