This book addresses intensification and modal necessity in Mandarin
Chinese. Intensification is used in this book to describe the
speaker's emphasis on a proposition, because, by emphasizing on a
proposition, the speaker intensifies the degree of his/her
confidence and affirmativeness toward the truth of a proposition,
cf. the distinction between 'weaker' and 'stronger'. Modal
necessity discussed in this book refers either to the speaker's
certainty regarding the truth of an inference, judgment or
stipulation, that is, epistemic necessity or to the speaker's
certainty concerning the obligatoriness of a proposition, based on
rules or regulations, i.e., deontic necessity. This book examines a
series of lexical items in Mandarin Chinese that express either
intensification or modal necessity, provides a unified semantics
and also presents how these lexical items are semantically
distinct. Intensification and Modal Necessity in Mandarin Chinese
is aimed at instructors, researchers and post-graduate students of
Chinese Linguistics.
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