Chinese quantifier scope, concord, and Lexical Resource Semantics
- This paper considers Chinese quantifier scope, an important, outstanding area of Chinese linguistics. In particular, there are two open questions on the subject: (1) the guiding principles that determine (a) the scopal readings of quantifiers and (b) the sometimes mandatory co-occurrence of the universal quantifier mei (every) and the universal adverb dou, and (2) the semantic functions of mei and dou and their connection to the co-occurrence of these words. We reappraise three prior accounts of these subjects, reason through their consequences on some exemplary data, offer a new explanation based upon concord, a mechanism that is commonplace in many languages, and formulate it in lexical resource semantics (LRS). We use two principles adapted from Richter and Sailer's (2004) analysis of negative concord, expanded with a new quantifier order constraint to generate a coherent answer to the two aforementioned questions.
| Author: | Jingcheng NiuORCiD, Xinyu KangORCiD, Pascal HohmannORCiD, Gerlad PennORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-733381 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2022.6 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/11/02 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (29 : 2022 : Nagoya; Tokio; Online) |
| Release Date: | 2024/09/25 |
| GND Keyword: | Chinesisch; Nominalphrase; Quantor |
| Volume: | 29.2022 |
| Page Number: | 19 |
| First Page: | 102 |
| Last Page: | 119 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
