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Peer reviewedLin, Shuang-fu – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1974
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedCheng, Robert L. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1980
Divides Taiwanese modals into: (1) authority, where a deep structure agent exercises authority; (2) contigency, which concerns the speaker's judgment of the possibility or logical necessity df the occurrence of an event; and (3) volition, which expresses the subject's desires. The constructions in which these modals appear are examined. (PJM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Semantics, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedLu, John H-T. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1980
Studies, using Mandarin Chinese as a test case: (1) the interaction of syntax and semantics when quantifiers and negatives co-occur; (2) the linear interpretation of quantifiers when the universal and existential quantifiers co-occur; (3) the logical relationship between them; and (4) the basic word order of existential sentences involving…
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Negative Forms (Language), Semantics
