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Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese - System and Theory behind cai, jiu, dou and ye (Hardcover, New)
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Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese - System and Theory behind cai, jiu, dou and ye (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
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This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of
focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles "cai,
jiu, dou and ye" are in a specific use type, shown to form the core
of a highly systematic paradigm. Foci agree with their backgrounds,
with the particles being the agreement markers. The semantic
categories involved are different types of quantification over
alternatives: all alternatives may be true, or some, or not all, or
none. This minimal semantics is capable of explaining the use of
"cai, jiu, dou and ye and two more" "particles (hai and zai") in
various contexts that have figured in controversial debates over
the past three decades. This book is not just a valuable companion
for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar,
it caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for
linguists from other fields with an interest in information
structure, focus and contrastive topics, and quantification. The
outstanding characteristics of this book, viz. its effortless
integration of findings from formal semantics without heavy formal
load, makes it rewarding reading for both linguists with a less
formal background, and for researchers with some knowledge of
formal semantics.
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