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Downward Entailing and Chinese Polarity Items (Paperback)
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Downward Entailing and Chinese Polarity Items (Paperback)
Series: Frontiers in Applied Linguistics
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Polarity phenomena are pervasively observed in natural languages.
Previous studies on Chinese polarity items are mainly in line with
the non-veridicality approach. This book, however, employs the
downward-entailing hypothesis as its analytical foundation, and
argues that downward entailment is the only licensor for different
kinds of Chinese polarity items, and non-veridicality is neither a
necessary nor sufficient condition and thus offers inferior
explanatory power compared with the former. To begin with, it lays
the groundwork for this research by presenting a brief introduction
to polarity phenomena and reviewing the existing relevant theories.
Then it addresses the status of the commonly used element dou in
Chinese. Specifically, it applies the tripartite structural frame
to the studies of dou, and examines the role of dou in licensing
the polarity items. Moreover, it investigates the properties and
behavior of dou with respect to modality. Based on the analysis
above, it observes that non-interrogative wh-indeterminates in
Chinese can be licensed in the restriction domain of a necessity
operator. Also, the non-uniformity of three Chinese polarity items,
i.e., shenme, na-CL, and renhe, is scrutinized within the
downward-entailing framework. This book will appeal to scholars,
teachers and students in the field of linguistics, especially in
the areas of formal semantics and generative grammar. Researchers
and engineers in cloud computing and big data who are seeking help
from linguistic contributions to meaning and logic will also
benefit from it.
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