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Contextualized Existential Constructions in Mandarin Chinese
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- Issue Date
- 2022-12
- Citation
- Language Research, Vol.58 No.3 pp.177-203
- Keywords
- existential construction ; information structure ; topic ; predicate restriction ; definiteness restriction
- Abstract
- This paper proposes that in addition to the typical out-of-the-blue existential
construction, a kind of contextualized existential construction exists in
Mandarin Chinese. This form does not exhibit the predicate restriction observed
in typical existential constructions cross-linguistically. It is argued that this type
of existential construction involves a topic-comment structure and functions as a subtype of the Existential Coda Construction discussed by Zhang (2007,
2008). The current analysis also explains the apparent lack of a definiteness
restriction for specific Mandarin Chinese existential constructions
- ISSN
- 0254-4474
- Language
- English
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