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Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-Related Structures by YING. LIU is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-Related Structures about?
"Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures investigates the semantics of the cleft and cleft-related structures in Mandarin, which, over several decades, have presented analytical challenges for semantic theory. The goal of this book, in broad terms, is three-fold: (i) to figure out what clefting adds to the semantics of a sentence; (ii) to set apart the meaning and the discourse function of each type of cleft-related structure; and (iii) to provide a uniform analysis of Mandarin clefts and their related structures. More specifically, it addresses the following questions: (i) what is the semantics of Mandarin clefts? (ii) what do exhaustivity and contrastivity contribute to the meaning of clefts? (iii) what are the semantic (or pragmatic) factors that determine the variation of clefts, related structures, and canonical sentences? and (iv) cross-linguistically speaking, how do Mandarin shi...de cleft and its related structures differ from similar constructions such as English it-cleft, French c'est cleft, and German es-cleft? This book will be informative for linguists who are working on cleft constructions, focus sensitive structures cross-
Who reads Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-Related Structures?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- YING. LIU
- Publisher
- Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780367631420
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Linguistics, Literary Fiction