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Syntactic Analysis of the Polar Questions in Chenghai Dialect.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Syntactic Analysis of the Polar Questions in Chenghai Dialect./
Author:	Jin, Jia.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	131 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-08A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13837832
ISBN:	9780438851306

Syntactic Analysis of the Polar Questions in Chenghai Dialect.
Jin, Jia.

Syntactic Analysis of the Polar Questions in Chenghai Dialect. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 131 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Three patterns of polar questions found in the Chenghai variety of the Chaozhou and Shantou dialects, namely the simple types of VP-Neg and K-VP and the mixed type of K-VP-Neg, are investigated in this thesis. As indicated earlier in Zhu (1991), there is an enormous value in studying polar questions in the Chaozhou and Shantou dialects as they differ from other Chinese dialects by having a higher number and complexity of sentence-final negators, the existence of mixed structures etc. With limited previous research on the grammar of Chaozhou and Shantou dialects, this thesis aims to fill in the gaps by adequately describing and explaining the structures and phenomena as mentioned above. It is found that the three patterns of polar questions share some common features. For example, the sentence concerned must have a positive word (an auxiliary), the syntactic position of which can be changed to vary the question scope. The three patterns also have their own features. For example, VP-Neg is marked by the high number and complexity of sentence-final negators, the existence of an overt conjunction and the formation of the predicate with two tone-sandhi groups; K-VP is marked by the obligatory adjacency of a positive word and the prominence of the island and root effects. K-VP-Neg is marked by the undeletability of conjunction and the prohibition of sentence-final negators from being read in the neutral tone. Based on the analysis of the language data, this thesis further discusses the derivation of the three patterns of polar questions and explains their linguistic similarities and differences as mentioned above. It is found that the three different structures all contain the same set of features, namely, [+/-V], [+/-Pol] and [+/-Q]. They differ in the choice of the elements that these features are assigned to and the ways the features are checked. The negative adverb m in VP-Neg carries [-V]; the interrogative adverb ke in K-VP carries [-V]; both m and ke in K-VP-Neg carry [-V]. All those that carry [-V] attract the most adjacent positive word to move and to be incorporated to check this feature. [+/-Pol] is posited at F0 in VP-Neg, at PolP0 in K-VP and at F0 in VP-Neg; it is valued at F0 through the negative adverb and at PolP0 through the positive word; the question feature is checked through intonation in VP-Neg and through the LF movement of ke to C0 in the cases of K-VP and K-VP-Neg. Lastly, the typological features of the Chenghai dialect by means of cross-dialectal comparisons focusing on the syntheticity of sentence-final negators and the overt conjunctions, supplemented with evidence in the Chenghai dialect regarding its specialty in applicative structures and verb-complement constructions, etc are discussed in this thesis. The features of the Chenghai dialect that are distinguishable from those of Cantonese and Mandarin with regard to the preference of disyllabicity over monosyllabicity and isolation over fusion are examined. It is argued that this series of linguistic phenomena embodies the high analyticity of the Chenghai dialect.

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Syntactic Analysis of the Polar Questions in Chenghai Dialect.
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