@inproceedings{fae1b44f763345d9be521d2fc53d9403,
title = "A Semantic Study of the Adverb Jiu in Mandarin Chinese",
abstract = "This paper investigates the semantics of the adverb jiu in Mandarin Chinese. In the spirit of Paris [6], we claim that the nuclear meaning of jiu is to build up a relation between two units; more precisely, between the asserted value and its alternatives, between the actual value and the reference value, between the asserted value and the relevant open sentence, and/or between two successive events. Based on this, we argue that according to its semantics the adverb jiu can be classified into three: focus adverb jiu, sufficiency operator jiu and jiu with the {\textquoteleft}close to{\textquoteright} meaning. Focus adverb jiu can be further divided into exclusive adverb jiu, scalar adverb jiu and jiu indicating emphatic assertion according to its semantic properties. When jiu takes the {\textquoteleft}close to{\textquoteright} meaning, it either acts as a temporal adverb or implies two events happened/will happen in quick succession.",
keywords = "emphatic assertion, exclusive adverb, focus adverb, scalar adverb, sufficiency operator",
author = "Lei Zhang and Lee, {Peppina Po-lun}",
year = "2013",
month = may,
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-45185-0_34",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-642-45184-3",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)",
publisher = "Springer ",
pages = "318--327",
editor = "Pengyuan Liu and Qi Su",
booktitle = "Chinese Lexical Semantics",
note = "14th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2013) ; Conference date: 10-05-2013 Through 12-05-2013",
}