Epistemic indefinites and reportative indefinites in cantonese

Tommy Tsz Ming Lee; Hok Yuen Wong

Epistemic indefinites and reportative indefinites in cantonese

Tommy Tsz Ming Lee, Hok Yuen Wong

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This paper examines the syntactic andsemantic properties of the two understudieduses of wh-expressions in Cantonese, in theform of m-zi-wh 'not-know-wh' and wh-wh(wh-doublets). We argue that they are,respectively, Epistemic Indefinites (EIs) andReportative Indefinites (RIs). We suggest thatthe speaker's ignorance associated with EIsand reportative implication associated withRIs, are conventional implicatures. Buildingon their distributional similarities, we proposea unified syntactic and semantic analysis forboth EIs and RIs in Cantonese.

Original language	English
Pages	339-347
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2018 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 1 Dec 2018 → 3 Dec 2018

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Conference	32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2018
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
City	Hong Kong
Period	1/12/18 → 3/12/18

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