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The dative puzzle in Chinese revisited중국어 여격 구문의 재고
- Other Titles
- 중국어 여격 구문의 재고
- Issue Date
- Feb-2022
- Publisher
- 연세대학교 언어정보연구원
- Keywords
- 중국어; 여격 구문; 영향권의 중의성; 상승; 하향; Chinese; dative constructions; scope ambiguity; ascending; descending
- Citation
- 언어사실과 관점, v.55, pp 465 - 492
- Pages
- 28
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- 언어사실과 관점
- Volume
- 55
- Start Page
- 465
- End Page
- 492
- ISSN
- 1738-1908
2765-4354
- Abstract
- .This paper investigates Chinese dative constructions with respect to quantifierscope interpretation. Since Huang’s (1982) analysis, it has been widely assumedthat quantifier scope is basically determined by the surface word order. However,closer examination reveals that in Chinese dative constructions the [Theme-Goal]orders reveal scope ambiguity, whereas the [Goal-Theme] orders do not displaythis scope relation, indicating a scope asymmetry. This pattern is very similar toEnglish. Hence, in this paper, adopting Janke and Neeleman’s (2012) ascendingand descending VP structures, we would like to suggest that Chinese dativeconstructions can be divided into right-to-left scope in ascending structures andleft-to-right scope in descending structures.
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Related Researcher
- Park, Myung Kwan
- College of Humanities (Division of English Language and Literature)