32.731, Books: Yě, yě, yě: Yang

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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:17:21
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Yě, yě, yě: Yang

 


Title: Yě, yě, yě 
Subtitle: On the syntax and semantics of Mandarin yě 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/y%C4%9B-y%C4%9B-y%C4%9B-on-the-syntax-and-semantics-of-mandarin-y%C4%9B 


Author: Zhaole Yang

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933561 Pages: 199 Price: Europe EURO 31


Abstract:

This dissertation presents a description and analysis of the Mandarin particle
yě ‘also’. It provides a comprehensive syntactic and semantic treatment of
three different manifestations of yě, namely, Additive yě, which is similar to
English also, Parametric/Scalar yě, which we find in ‘no matter’ and even/even
if contexts, and, finally, Modal yě, basically a concessivity marker.

Additive, Parametric/Scalar and Modal yě are different in interpretation and
require different licensing conditions. Additive yě can only be licensed if an
antecedent can be retrieved from the context: the antecedent must be
explicitly asserted or otherwise present in the active context and it must
have the same argumentative orientation as the host sentence.
Parametric/scalar yě can only be licensed if scalarity is marked in the
sentence. Finally, as a concessivity marker, Modal yě presupposes the
existence of a concessive proposition as an alternative. Pragmatically, the
use of Modal yě results in a polite, indirect, tactful or less absolute
reading of the host sentence. The syntactic properties of the different
manifestations of yě are explored vis à vis Butler's modal hierarchy and
Cinque’s adverb hierarchy. We conclude that there are two positions of yě in
the syntactic structure, one in CP and the other in IP.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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