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1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge studies in Chinese linguistics |
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Routledge studies in Chinese linguistics.
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| Contents |
Review of previous studies -- The most general case : yídìng -- Intra-sentential resolution : tiedìng -- Certainty confirmation : kendìng -- Certainty expression : dudìng -- Causing : bìrán -- Anti-causing : bìdìng -- Underspecified modal base : shìbì -- Addressee's to-do list : wùbì -- Archaic strong modal epistemic necessity and intensification : bì -- General discussion |
| Summary |
"This book addresses intensification and modal necessity in Mandarin Chinese. Intensification is used in this book to describe the speaker's emphasis on a proposition, because, by emphasizing on a proposition, the speaker intensifies the degree of his/her confidence and affirmativeness toward the truth of a proposition, cf. the distinction between 'weaker' and 'stronger'. Modal necessity discussed in this book refers either to the speaker's certainty regarding the truth of an inference, judgment or stipulation, that is, epistemic necessity or to the speaker's certainty concerning the obligatoriness of a proposition, based on rules or regulations, i.e., deontic necessity. This book examines a series of lexical items in Mandarin Chinese that express either intensification or modal necessity, provides a unified semantics and also presents how these lexical items are semantically distinct. Intensification and Modal Necessity in Mandarin Chinese is aimed at instructors, researchers and post-graduate students of Chinese Linguistics"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 2003, titled Modeling temporal progression in Mandarin : aspect markers and temporal relations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Chinese language -- Intensification
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Chinese language -- Modality
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Mandarin dialects.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
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Mandarin dialects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019000673 |
| ISBN |
1315159910 |
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1351660942 |
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1351660950 |
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1351660969 |
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9781315159911 |
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9781351660945 |
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9781351660952 |
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9781351660969 |
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