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Indefinite Wh in Mandarin Chinese 喜欢 0 阅读量: 51 作者: YHA Li 摘要: Wh-words in Mandarin Chinse can have a non-interrogative indefinite interpretation as well as an interrogative one. The occurrence of a non-interrogative Wh-element is subject to certain semantic and syntactic constraints: ...
This article shows, through a typological survey and a detailed comparison of Passamaquoddy and Mandarin Chinese, that there is no connection between wh-in-situ and either property. Passamaquoddy uses wh-words as indefinites in all the contexts Chinese does, but it is a robust wh-movement ...
Mandarin wh -items as analyzed here are thus characterized as indefinites in the sense of Heim 1982 in that they lack quantificational force of their own, and are completely at the mercy of their operators. The Hamblin approach we adopt thus allows us to preserve insights from Cheng 1991, ...
2, however, is mostly concerned with indefinites like un N 'an N' and wh -expressions like qui/quoi 'who/what' and quel 'which', the analysis of which is claimed to involve covert splitting. Un N allows nonpresuppositional, ... H De Swart - 《Language》 被引量: 14发表: 2011年 ...
Indefinite shenme 'what' has a set of linguistic properties that distinguishes it from wh-indefinites like shei'who' and nali 'where', as illustrated below. 'Insignificance' interpretation In negative statements indefinite shenme can be assigned an 'insignificance' interpretation, in addition to the...
Wh-phrases such as shei 'who' and shenme 'what' in Mandarin Chinese have both interrogative uses and non-interrogative uses. When used non-interrogatively, they are licensed in NPI contexts when interpreted as somebody and something, as is shown in (1a) and (1b), which earned them the ...