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Chinfa LIEN2007 Volume 2007 Issue 254 Pages 29-50
Published: October 27, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: March 19, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe paper aims at fleshing out the constraints that approximatives imposes on numerals in a range of constructions. Approximative constructions fall into three types: Type I, Type II, and Type III. Numerals can be grouped into (1) round numbers in a narrow sense, (2) round numbers in a broad sense, and (3) odd numbers. We can establish principles for the formation of approximatives in terms of the interaction between the position of approximatives (syntagmatic relationship) and the classes of numerals (paradigmatic relationship). I first attempt a fine-grained analysis of approximatives in Taiwanese Southern Min for the purpose of pinning down semantic and syntactic properties of approximatives. Then I make a preliminary comparative study of approximatives in Mandarin and southern dialects (viz., Kajia, Yue and Min). Lastly, I touch on the challenges facing the study of dialectal grammar.View full abstractDownload PDF (2582K) -
Yen-hui Audrey LI2007 Volume 2007 Issue 254 Pages 74-106
Published: October 27, 2007
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSNatural languages often have elements with meaning but not sound, restricted in their distribution and interpretation. Grammar captures some of such restrictions by distinguishing different types of empty categories (NP-trace, variable, empty pronoun) -ECs, each of which is subject to interpretive and licensing rules. Chinese is prominent in the presence of empty elements. The restrictions on interpreting empty elements in Chinese were the topics of a vast literature in the last several decades. This work reviews the major proposals and shows that an important subject/object asymmetry in interpretive possibilities has not been properly recognized, which underlies many of the descriptive problems challenging the available accounts. It will be demonstrated that the problems can be solved if we allow the existence of a true empty position (TEP) -an empty element that cannot be an EC. It is truly empty and contains no features except the categorical ones, which can be obtained from the linguistic contexts. Its existence is forced because grammar prohibits an EC to occur in a certain position but the position is necessary to fulfill subcategorization requirements. It is a last resort strategy. This provides important clues to understanding the different behavior of empty nominals in Chinese and Japanese-Chinese seems to exhibit an asymmetry in the interpretive possibilities of empty subjects and objects much more strictly than Japanese. The difference is traced to structures: Chinese projects nominal expressions in argument positions as DPs and Japanese, as NPs.View full abstractDownload PDF (3313K) -
[in Japanese]2007 Volume 2007 Issue 254 Pages 143-163
Published: October 27, 2007
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[in Japanese]2007 Volume 2007 Issue 254 Pages 164-180
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[in Japanese]2007 Volume 2007 Issue 254 Pages 181-198
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[in Japanese]2007 Volume 2007 Issue 254 Pages 241-262
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[in Japanese]2007 Volume 2007 Issue 254 Pages 263-283
Published: October 27, 2007
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