- The book contributes to a fuller description and a uniformed analysis of Mandarin cleft constructions.
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- The book provides the first Mandarin empirical data towards some heated theoretical debates.
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- The book yields a good combination of theoretical formal semantics, semantic-pragmatic interface studies, corpus analyses, and the newly emerging experimental semantics.
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- Typologically speaking, Mandarin shi...(de) presents some characteristics of the that are rarely found with its counterparts in other languages.
Ying Liu is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Fudan University. Her research interests include formal semantics, experimental semantics, and Chinese grammar.
Title: Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures (Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics)
Author: Liu, Ying
ISBN: 9780367631451
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-12-30
Number of Pages: 220
Weight: 0.3301 kg