Logical information processing of possibility and negation: Cases from Taiwanese Hakka

Abstract

This paper attempts to provide a refined description with a quantitative analysis about the deontic modals zo3-ded4 and sii2-ded4 in Taiwanese Hakka. While the affirmative-negative relationship is symmetrical structurally, it manifests in an asymmetrical manner semantically. The logic notations will be applied to clarify the intriguing interaction of possibility and negation. Under the interaction of semantic meanings and syntactic constructions, the representation of deontic modals in Taiwanese Hakka is therefore clearly elucidated. © 2011 by Chioushing Yeh, and Hueiling Lai.