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T(ense) in Mandarin Chinese: Form and meaning.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	T(ense) in Mandarin Chinese: Form and meaning./
Author:	Li, Nan.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	182 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-02A(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10171420
ISBN:	9781369254570

T(ense) in Mandarin Chinese: Form and meaning.
Li, Nan.

T(ense) in Mandarin Chinese: Form and meaning. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 182 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2016.

This dissertation shows how Mandarin Chinese encodes temporality without tense morphology within the framework of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1993 et seq.). I propose that Mandarin has a T(ense) projection in its clause structure, which is headed by a phonologically null element theta yo&caron;u in a non-future episodic sentence. It is optionally pronounced as you when the negation marker mei moves obligatorily out of its base position under Neg(ation) to attach to it in a non-future negative episodic sentence.

ISBN: 9781369254570Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

T(ense) in Mandarin Chinese: Form and meaning.
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520 $a This dissertation shows how Mandarin Chinese encodes temporality without tense morphology within the framework of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1993 et seq.). I propose that Mandarin has a T(ense) projection in its clause structure, which is headed by a phonologically null element theta yo&caron;u in a non-future episodic sentence. It is optionally pronounced as you when the negation marker mei moves obligatorily out of its base position under Neg(ation) to attach to it in a non-future negative episodic sentence.
520 $a Evidence to support this proposal comes from the fact that theta yo&caron;u(/meiyo&caron;u) demonstrates two major properties of a T(ense) head: the location of the temporal interpretation of a sentence and the divider of interpretation domains for quantifiers, as proposed in Diesing's (1992) Mapping Hypothesis. Semantic analyses on the temporality of a nonfuture eventive episodic sentence in Mandarin show that its temporal interpretation is located on thetayo&caron;u . It is realized as you phonologically, when the negation marker mei undergoes obligatory head movement from Neg to attach to it in a non-future negative episodic sentence. This constitutes the first piece of evidence for the TP proposal for Mandarin. The second piece of evidence comes from the observation that strong or presuppositional quantifiers, which include not only canonical ones such as meigeren ('everyone') but also non-canonical ones such as universal free choice expressions (wulun) wh- dou ('no matter wh-') and scalar quantifiers such as ( lian)...dou ('even'), are interpreted above thetayo&caron;u (/meiyo&caron;u ), whereas weak or existential quantifiers such as yo&caron;uren ('someone') or meiyo&caron;uren ('nobody') and yo&caron;u/meiyo&caron;u-existential sentences are interpreted below thetayo&caron;u ( /meiyo&caron;u). This property of thetayo&caron;u (/meiyo&caron;u) is consistent with the role played by T in Diesing's (1992) Mapping Hypothesis, which says that presuppositional quantifiers are interpreted above T and existential quantifiers are interpreted below it.
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