| dc.creator (作者) | 楊中玉 | zh_TW |
| dc.creator (作者) | Yang, Barry Chung-Yu | - |
| dc.date (日期) | 2005-06 | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 11-Aug-2016 10:59:32 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.available | 11-Aug-2016 10:59:32 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.issued (上傳時間) | 11-Aug-2016 10:59:32 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.identifier.uri (URI) | http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/99972 | - |
| dc.description.abstract (摘要) | This paper proposes a syntactic account for the licensing conditions and interpretations of indefinite subjects in Mandarin Chinese. Three dimensions are explored: subject specificity, predicate distributivity, and scope interpretation. We suggest that the indefinite subject be best treated as a variable, which has to be bound by certain operator, to account for its various readings. The property of its corresponding operator in turn determines the specificity of the indefinite subject: The specific/presuppositional reading is licensed by the existential predicate you `have/exist` serving as an existential quantifier YOU, while the nonspecific/ cardinal reading is licensed by either the implicit existential closure (Diesing 1992) at Mod` (Tsai 2001) or you serving as the overt realization of the existential closure. Furthermore, the predicate distributivity plays a nontrivial role in licensing indefinite subjects. I propose a hierarchical account to clarify the two confusing notions, i.e. specificity and distributivity, on the interpretation of indefinite subjects. The distributive reading of indefinite subjects is licensed at a higher position than the collective reading. Finally, the wide-scope indefinite phenomenon is attributed to the scope-independent reading (Liu 1997) which in turn is licensed by specificity and distributivity. In a word, each of the three dimensions mentioned above contributes to the interpretation of the indefinite subject in Mandarin Chinese. | - |
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| dc.relation (關聯) | 臺灣語言學期刊, 3(1), 133-173 | - |
| dc.relation (關聯) | Taiwan Journal of Linguistics | - |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | SUBJECT SPECIFICITY; PREDICATE DISTRIBUTIVITY; SCOPE INTERPRETATION | - |
| dc.title (題名) | Subject Specificity, Predicate Distributivity, and Scope Interpretation | - |
| dc.type (資料類型) | article | - |
| dc.identifier.doi (DOI) | 10.6519/TJL.2005.3(1).5 | - |
| dc.doi.uri (DOI) | http://dx.doi.org/10.6519/TJL.2005.3(1).5 | - |
