TY  - CHAP
A1  - Paris, Marie-Claude
T1  - Where has the new information gone? : the chinese case
T2  - Issues on topics / Ed. by Kerstin Schwabe ..., Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2000; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 20
N2  - In this paper I would like to show that the principles which have been proposed so far to account for the relationship between the informational level and the syntactic level in a Chinese utterance are unable to predict some interesting and regular facts of that language.
To my mind, the form and the position of the question operator in an interrogative utterance provide two distributional tests which univocally indicate where the new information lies. Hence, the pairing of affirmative and interrogative sentences might be a better approach to locate where the new information lies in a Chinese utterance.
KW  - Chinesisch
KW  - Topik
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Syntax
Y1  - 2000
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30768
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-307683
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/material/ZASPiL_Volltexte/zp20/zaspil20-paris.pdf
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 20
SP  - 71
EP  - 83
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -