Chinese Lexical Semantics
19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Chiayi, Taiwan, May 26–28, 2018, Revised Selected Papers
Chapter and Conference Paper
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...
Chapter and Conference Paper
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...
Chapter and Conference Paper
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...
Chapter and Conference Paper
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...
Chapter and Conference Paper
Contrary to the previous literature suggesting incompatibility between future and perfective le, this paper presents examples where the three future modals in Mandarin Chinese jiāng, huì and yào are compatible wi...
Chapter
In this paper, I classify the senses of epistemic hui into two types: a future one and a generalizing one, and argue that hui has three core semantic properties. First, it expresses a non-posteriority reading. Se...
Book and Conference Proceedings
19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Chiayi, Taiwan, May 26–28, 2018, Revised Selected Papers
Chapter and Conference Paper
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 ...
Chapter and Conference Paper
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...
Chapter and Conference Paper
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...
Article
In this paper, I argue that tense is a discourse feature in Mandarin if tense is extended to mean temporal location in general instead of grammaticalized location in time, as defined in Comrie (Tense, 1985). T...
Article
This paper argues that experiential guo in Mandarin predicates on situations whose semantics as a whole is terminable. Situations in the world can be categorized into two groups in terms of the number of componen...
Article