- Tytuł:
- Why-questions, topicality and intervention effects in Chinese
- Autorzy:
- Jin, Dawei
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1152522.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2016
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
- Tematy:
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intervention effects
why-questions
illocutionary acts
wide-scope indefinites
Mandarin Chinese - Opis:
- This paper revisits intervention effects in Mandarin Chinese why-questions. I present new data showing that the ability for quantifiers to induce intervention hinges upon their monotonicity and their ability to be interpreted as topics. I then develop a semantic account that correlates topicality with monotone properties. Furthermore, I propose that why-questions in Chinese are idiosyncratic in that why directly merges at a high scope position that stays above a propositional argument. Combining the semantic idiosyncrasies of why-questions with the wide scope behaviors of topicality, I conclude that my account explains a wide range of intervention phenomena in terms of interpretation failure.
- Źródło:
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Yearbook of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting; 2016, 2, 1
2449-7525 - Pojawia się w:
- Yearbook of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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