You Sluice and hai Modification in Chinese

Autor: Wei Ting-Chi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Studies in Chinese Linguistics, Vol 38, Iss 1, Pp 1-17 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1017-1274
DOI: 10.1515/scl-2017-0001
Popis: This paper argues that you ‘have’ sluice is a variant of pseudosluicing, akin to shi ‘be’ sluice in Chinese. You sluice can be analyzed as a base-generated structure [pro you ‘have’ wh-phrase], consisting of a subject pro, a verb you ‘have’, and a wh-phrase, having nothing to do with movement and deletion. In this simple clause, the pro can either refer to a nominal antecedent or an event antecedent; you ‘have’ mainly denotes possessive or existential readings as well as extended attributive uses. This analysis further reveals how circum-phrase chule … yiwei ‘besides’ semantically and syntactically interacts with hai ‘still’ in you sluice to express else modification in English sluicing derived by movement and deletion.
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