Chinese Lexical Semantics
19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Chiayi, Taiwan, May 26–28, 2018, Revised Selected Papers
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Jiun-Shiung Wu
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Chinese Optatives: A Preliminary Study
In this paper, we argue that jiù hǎo le ‘jiu nice Prc’ is a fixed expression and functions as an optative operator. This operator induces a partial ordering of possible worlds based on the likelihood of a proposi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Temporal Hái in Mandarin Chinese Revisited: A Presuppositional Account
This paper re-examines temporal hái thoroughly. Two issues concerning hái cannot be taken care of by previous studies. The firs one is why hái always scopes over negation, syntactically and semantically. The seco...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Responses to Questions in Mandarin Chinese
This paper presents the result of a preliminary examination on responses to ma questions and A-not-A questions in Mandarin Chinese. We recognize five types: predicate response, shì response, duì response, yǒu res...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Dynamic Semantics of Fǒuzé and Bùrán in Mandarin Chinese
This paper argues that fǒuzé and bùrán share a unified dynamic semantics: they update an information state by adding, into the information state, a proposition which is evaluated, provided the negation of the inf...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Temporal Behavior of Temporal Modifiers and Its Implications:
In this paper, I argue that contrast is an essential and indispensable part of the semantics of běnlái and yuánlái, in addition to the temporal semantics argued in [1] and [2], based on the discourse function of ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Toward a Unified Semantics for Ū in Ū + Situation in Taiwan Southern Min: A Modal-Aspectual Account
Ū in ū + situation in Taiwan Southern Min has been noted, in the literature, to express multiple readings. In this paper, we argue for a modal-aspectual account for ū. The semantics of ū includes an epistemic mod...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Manifestation of Certainty in Semantics:
This paper examines three modal adverbials in Mandarin Chinese: yídìng, kěndìng and dǔdìng. These three lexical entries can all express strong epistemic necessity or intensification. However, denoting intensifica...
