The Syntax of the Abstract-type Measurement Construction in Mandarin Chinese

This paper investigates a special sub-type of measurement construction in Mandarin Chinese, namely the [Num-measure word-de-N] construction where the N is an abstract dimension-denoting noun. Evidence is presented to show that the abstract-type [Num-measure word-de-N] should be fundamentally disting...

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Autor principal:	Jin Jing
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Publicado:	Sciendo 2017
Materias:	measurement construction predicate inversion word order chinese syntax Chinese language and literature PL1001-3208
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7d80d31f7e124d349986fdc52e3db1892021-12-02T19:09:36ZThe Syntax of the Abstract-type Measurement Construction in Mandarin Chinese1017-127410.1515/scl-2017-0003https://doaj.org/article/7d80d31f7e124d349986fdc52e3db1892017-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2017-0003https://doaj.org/toc/1017-1274This paper investigates a special sub-type of measurement construction in Mandarin Chinese, namely the [Num-measure word-de-N] construction where the N is an abstract dimension-denoting noun. Evidence is presented to show that the abstract-type [Num-measure word-de-N] should be fundamentally distinguished from the quantifying-/modifying-type [Num-measure word-de-N], in which the [Num-measure word] sequence serves to quantize/modify a semantically concrete, entity-denoting N. At the interpretive level, this paper claims that the abstracttype [Num-measure word-de-N] is semantically definite. At the syntactic level, a clausal analysis within the framework of the Predicate Inversion theory is pursued to account for the derivation of the abstract-type measurement construction. Last, it is proposed that the word order distinction between the Chinese abstracttype measurement construction, which is N-final, and its English counterpart, where the N linearly precedes [Num-measure word], can be explained in terms of a parametric variation with respect to the (non-)application of N-raising after Predicate Inversion.Jin JingSciendoarticlemeasurement constructionpredicate inversionword orderchinese syntaxChinese language and literaturePL1001-3208ENStudies in Chinese Linguistics, Vol 38, Iss 1, Pp 35-61 (2017)
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description	This paper investigates a special sub-type of measurement construction in Mandarin Chinese, namely the [Num-measure word-de-N] construction where the N is an abstract dimension-denoting noun. Evidence is presented to show that the abstract-type [Num-measure word-de-N] should be fundamentally distinguished from the quantifying-/modifying-type [Num-measure word-de-N], in which the [Num-measure word] sequence serves to quantize/modify a semantically concrete, entity-denoting N. At the interpretive level, this paper claims that the abstracttype [Num-measure word-de-N] is semantically definite. At the syntactic level, a clausal analysis within the framework of the Predicate Inversion theory is pursued to account for the derivation of the abstract-type measurement construction. Last, it is proposed that the word order distinction between the Chinese abstracttype measurement construction, which is N-final, and its English counterpart, where the N linearly precedes [Num-measure word], can be explained in terms of a parametric variation with respect to the (non-)application of N-raising after Predicate Inversion.
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The Syntax of the Abstract-type Measurement Construction in Mandarin Chinese

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