Abstract
The focus/quantificational particle dou 都 in Mandarin has been a highly controversial topic in the literature. Recent proposals (Liao 2011; Xiang 2016; Liu 2017) have suggested unifying analyses across various uses of dou based on the alternatives-and-exhaustification framework (Chierchia 2013), including the unconditional (1), the even-focus construction (2), and the con-struction in (3) where dou appears to interact with a preceding plural NP.
(1) 我誰都見過
(2) 我連張三都見過
(3) 他們都睡了
Adopting the same framework, I propose a new analysis where dou-sentences are anti-exhaustive contrastive topic (CT) constructions in Mandarin.
(1) 我誰都見過
(2) 我連張三都見過
(3) 他們都睡了
Adopting the same framework, I propose a new analysis where dou-sentences are anti-exhaustive contrastive topic (CT) constructions in Mandarin.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 147 |
| Publication status | Published - 12 May 2019 |
| Event | 27th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-27) - Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Kobe, Japan Duration: 10 May 2019 → 12 May 2019 https://sinotibetan-japan.com/iacl27kobe/index.html https://sinotibetan-japan.com/iacl27kobe/download/APR20-2019-IACL27KOBE-ParallelSessions-Abstracts.pdf |
Conference
| Conference | 27th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-27) |
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| Country/Territory | Japan |
| City | Kobe |
| Period | 10/05/19 → 12/05/19 |
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