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Kuno, Susumu; Takami, Ken-ichi; Wu, Yuru – Language, 1999
Critiques Aoun and Li's (1993) syntactic analysis of quantifier-scope interpretations in English, Chinese, and Japanese, showing serious theoretical problems with their results and proposing a quantifier-scope analysis that avoids those problems. The proposed expert system considers several important considerations and arrives at a composite…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Grammar, Japanese
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Ting, Jen – Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 1998
Proposes that the bei-construction, a Mandarin Chinese passive construction, is not derived uniformly, but rather, three types of bei-sentences must be recognized. Presents basic facts about bei-construction; shows consistent structural differences between bei-sentences with and without the lexical logical subject, discussing A-dependency and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Mandarin Chinese, Regional Dialects, Sentence Structure
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McCawley, James D. – Language, 1999
Examines parallelisms between surface structure and logical structure and why those parallelisms do not extend farther than they do. If syntactic deep structures are identified with logical structures, an appropriate cyclic principle guarantees that cyclic rules will apply so that large-scale parallelisms exist between surface syntactic structures…
Descriptors: Grammar, Logic, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)