Varieties of Alternatives

Focus Particles and wh-Expressions in Mandarin
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-981-10-6207-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 4203 g

Reihe: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics

Explicitly analyses a variety of linguistic phenomena in Mandarin
Includes a combination of theoretical innovations and empirical coverage
Explores the role of alternatives in natural language grammar

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liu, Mingming

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Background.- Chapter 3. Varieties of Alternatives: Mandarin Focus Particles.- Chapter 4. More Exclusives.- Chapter 5. Mandarin Wh-conditionals: Challenges and Facts.- Chapter 6. Proposal-A: Wh-conditionals as Interrogative Conditionals.- Chapter 7. Proposal-B: Wh-conditionals as Interrogative Dependency.- Chapter 8. Concluding Remarks.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Mingming Liu received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2016 and currently works as an assistant professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, China. His work has addressed several aspects of Mandarin grammar: focus particles such as the famous dou “each, all, even, already” and other only-like exclusives, wh-expressions and wh-conditionals, Mandarin conditionals in general and resultative verb compounds. He has published articles in several peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.