TY - GEN
T1 - A semantic study of the adverb jiu in Mandarin Chinese
AU - Zhang, Lei
AU - Lee, Peppina Po Lun
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper investigates the semantics of the adverb jiu in Mandarin Chinese. In the spirit of Paris [6], we claim that the nuclear meaning ofjiu is to build up a relation between two units; more precisely, between the asserted value and its alternatives, between the actual value and the reference value, between the asserted value and the relevant open sentence, and/or between two successive events. Based on this, we argue that according to its semantics the adverb jiu can be classified into three: focus adverb jiu, sufficiency operatorjiu and jiu with the 'close to' meaning. Focus adverbjiu can be further divided into exclusive adverbjiu, scalar adverbjiu and jiu indicating emphatic assertion according to its semantic properties. When jiu takes the 'close to' meaning, it either acts as a temporal adverb or implies two events happened/will happen in quick succession.
AB - This paper investigates the semantics of the adverb jiu in Mandarin Chinese. In the spirit of Paris [6], we claim that the nuclear meaning ofjiu is to build up a relation between two units; more precisely, between the asserted value and its alternatives, between the actual value and the reference value, between the asserted value and the relevant open sentence, and/or between two successive events. Based on this, we argue that according to its semantics the adverb jiu can be classified into three: focus adverb jiu, sufficiency operatorjiu and jiu with the 'close to' meaning. Focus adverbjiu can be further divided into exclusive adverbjiu, scalar adverbjiu and jiu indicating emphatic assertion according to its semantic properties. When jiu takes the 'close to' meaning, it either acts as a temporal adverb or implies two events happened/will happen in quick succession.
KW - emphatic assertion
KW - exclusive adverb
KW - focus adverb
KW - scalar adverb
KW - sufficiency operator
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84893419896
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-45185-0_34
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-45185-0_34
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893419896
SN - 9783642451843
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 318
EP - 327
BT - Chinese Lexical Semantics - 14th Workshop, CLSW 2013, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 14th Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics, CLSW 2013
Y2 - 10 May 2013 through 12 May 2013
ER -