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Topics in the Mandarin Lian.dou construction: its syntax and acquisition
Li, Pengfei. - 2020
Abstract: This dissertation investigates the Mandarin lian…dou construction (roughly the equivalent of the English even-construction) from two perspectives: its syntax and acquisition. The research questions pursued in this dissertation are: 1) What drives the syntactic movement in the lian…dou construction? 2) How does the even-like interpretation arise in the lian…dou construction? and 3) What constitutes children’s knowledge of the implicatures of the lian…dou construction? With respect to the first question, following (Fanselow & Lenertová, 2011), it is proposed that the movement in the lian…dou construction is driven by an unselective edge feature of CP (Chomsky, 2008) and is subject to the locality constraint of accentuation that bans the movement of a phrase with structural accent across another phrase with the same type of accent. The advantage of this proposal is that it can explain the partial focus movement seen in unusual lian…dou sentences where the VP or the whole clause is the focus. Furthermore, I propose that dou is an adverb above TP. Lian selects an EdgeP. The Edge head has the unselective edge feature that picks and moves a constituent to SpecEdgeP. With respect to the second question, under Y. Xiang’s (2019) analysis, the alternatives for dou can be construed in two ways, either in terms of likelihood or in terms of innocent excludability (Fox, 2007). In the former case, dou becomes a mirative marker (or at least it expresses relative surprise; the prejacent is said to be less likely than some alternative). But Y. Xiang does not provide a method for choosing among these options. The mirativity corresponding to the unselective edge feature, I argue, is what disambiguates dou in favor of its mirative instantiation, forcing the alternatives to be construed in terms of likelihood. As for children’s knowledge of the two meaning components of the lian…dou construction: the existential implication (that alternatives exist) and the scalar implication (that the mentioned alternative is the least likely) (Karttunen & Peters, 1979), the results of an experimental study show that even 6-year-old children were generally not able to compute either of them. It is proposed that children’s failure with the meaning components of lian…dou was due to their limited cognitive resources and the excessive task demands.
Keyword: Acquisition; Even; Implication; Linguistics; Mandarin Lian.dou; Syntax
URL: https://hdl.handle.net/2144/39860
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The Movement of Question Particles
In: North East Linguistics Society (2020)
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Restrictions on definiteness in second language acquisition : affirmative and negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian speakers
White, Lydia [Verfasser]; Belikova, Alyona [Verfasser]; Hagstrom, Paul [Verfasser]. - Konstanz : Bibliothek der Universität Konstanz, 2017
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Restrictions on definiteness in second language acquisition : affirmative and negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian speakers
In: Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism ; 2 (2012), 1. - S. 54-89. - ISSN 1879-9272 (2012)
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Restrictions on definiteness in L2 English
In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Boston, 2009), p. 622-633
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A-not-A questions
In: The Blackwell companion to Syntax (Malden, 2006), 1 ; p. 173-213
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Kleanthes K. Grohmann: Prolific Domains [Rezension]
In: The journal of comparative Germanic linguistics. - Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 9 (2006) 3, 217-228
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Deriving output probabilities in child Mandarin from a dual-optimization grammar
In: Lingua <Amsterdam>. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier 114 (2004) 9-10, 1147-1185
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Deriving output probabilities in child Mandarin from a Dual-Optimization grammar
In: Lingua <Amsterdam>. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier 114 (2004) 9, 1147-1185
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Presuppositions, wh-questions, and discourse particles : Russian "že"
In: Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Languages <11, 2002, Amherst, Mass.>. Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Languages. - Ann Arbor, Mich. : Michigan Slavic Publ. (2003), 201-218
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Partial constraint ordering in child French syntax
In: Language acquisition. - Hillsdale, NJ : Erlbaum [[2000]] 10 (2002) 3, 189-227
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Partial Constraint Ordering in Child French Syntax
In: Language acquisition. - Hillsdale, NJ : Erlbaum [[2000]] 10 (2002) 3, 189-228
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Roots, constituents, and c-command
In: Theoretical approaches to universals. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Benjamins (2002), 109-137
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Implications of child errors for the syntax of negation in Korean
In: Journal of East Asian linguistics. - Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer 11 (2002) 3, 211-242
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Roots, constituents, and c-command
In: Theoretical approaches to universals (2002), 109-139
IDS Bibliografie zur deutschen Grammatik
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The movement of question particles
In: NELS (Amherst, Mass., 2000), 30.1 ; p.275-286
MPI für Psycholinguistik
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Evidence for syntactic competition in the acquisition of tense and agreement in child French
In: Papers from the panels of the Chicago Linguistic society's Thirty-sixth Meeting (2000), p. 431-444
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The movement of question particles
In: North Eastern Linguistic Society. Proceedings of NELS. - Amherst, Mass. : GLSA, Univ. of Mass. 30 (2000) 1, 275-286
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Evidence for syntactic competition in the acquisition of tense and agreement in child French
In: Chicago Linguistic Society. CLS. - Chicago, Ill. 36 (2000) 2, 431-444
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Decomposing questions
Hagstrom, Paul. - Cambridge, MA : MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 1998
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