A crosslinguistic syntax of scalar and non-scalar focus particle sentences: the view from Vietnamese and Chinese
| Autor: | Daniel Hole |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Vietnamese Scalar (physics) 06 humanities and the arts Syntax Language and Linguistics Linguistics language.human_language Focus (linguistics) German 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Meaning (philosophy of language) History and Philosophy of Science 0602 languages and literature Theoretical linguistics language 0305 other medical science Comparative linguistics Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of East Asian Linguistics. 26:389-409 |
| ISSN: | 1572-8560 0925-8558 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10831-017-9160-2 |
| Popis: | The article proposes a distributed syntax for Vietnamese and Chinese focus particle sentences. It disentangles syntactically the inclusion and exclusion of alternatives typical of focus particle uses from scalar components of meaning that many focus particle sentences convey. Vietnamese and Chinese are shown to have highly elaborate lexical paradigms that map plausibly onto the postulated syntactic and semantic functions. The article then turns to very similar phenomena from German and Dutch. It concludes with the hunch that the system as it unfolds in Vietnamese and Chinese is, in fact, simply an explicit instantiation of a pattern underlying focus particle sentences at a much more general level. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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