Quantifier scope ambiguity in Mandarin : Experimental investigations
Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication) › peer-review
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| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - May 2019 |
Conference
| Title | 27th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-27) |
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| Location | Kobe City University of Foreign Studies |
| Place | Japan |
| City | Kobe |
| Period | 10 - 12 May 2019 |
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| Permanent Link | https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/publications/publication(93a265b6-d576-479a-a6fd-62b16c9e094d).html |
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Abstract
Mandarin is generally considered as a “scope rigid language” (Huang, 1982) in that doubly quantified sentences do not display quantifier scope ambiguity (QSA). However, some recent studies argue that scope ambiguity does manifest in more complicated data, e.g. dative constructions (DCs), embedded nonfinite clauses (ENCs), relative constructions (RCs) and inverse-linking construction (ILCs) (Lin, 2013; Larson & Wu, 2018). Unfortunately, these studies offer no empirical evidence to support such claim. We present results from three pilot experiments which challenge the ambiguity thesis, and discuss implications from the findings.
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Quantifier scope ambiguity in Mandarin: Experimental investigations. / Gan, Tian; Tsai, Cheng-Yu Edwin.
2019. Paper presented at 27th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-27), Kobe, Japan.
2019. Paper presented at 27th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-27), Kobe, Japan.
Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication) › peer-review
