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題名 Antonyms? Presuppositions? On the Semantics of Two Evaluative Modals Jingran and Guoran in Mandarin 作者 吳俊雄
Wu, Jiun-Shiung關鍵詞 jingran; guoran; evaluative modals; modality; semantics; Mandarin 日期 2008-06 上傳時間 11-Aug-2016 11:24:53 (UTC+8) 摘要 Jingran indicates that the (non)occurrence of a situation that it presents contradicts the expectation, while guoran indicates that the (non)occurrence of a situation presented by it converges with the expectation. Arguing against Hsieh’s (2005, 2006a, 2006b) proposal that evaluative modals in Mandarin do not have a model-theoretic semantics, I propose that, given that the expectation serves as a modal base B which an evaluative conversational background forms, jingran presents a proposition which represents a simple necessity of negation in a possible world w with respect to B, whereas guoran presents a proposition which is equivalent to a simple necessity in a possible world w with respect to B. Contrary to Hsieh’s claim that modality in Mandarin has a language-specific property, i.e., that the semantics of certain modals in Mandarin cannot be defined in terms of possibility and necessity, I seek to fit modality in Mandarin into a bigger picture of modality in general and show that it is possible to achieve a universally valid notional category of modality, similar to the works of Kratzer (1981), though different languages may have language-specific choices for modal bases, which result in different types of modality in languages. 關聯 臺灣語言學期刊, 6(1), 97-118
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics資料類型 article DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.6519/TJL.2008.6(1).3 dc.creator (作者) 吳俊雄 zh_TW dc.creator (作者) Wu, Jiun-Shiung - dc.date (日期) 2008-06 - dc.date.accessioned 11-Aug-2016 11:24:53 (UTC+8) - dc.date.available 11-Aug-2016 11:24:53 (UTC+8) - dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 11-Aug-2016 11:24:53 (UTC+8) - dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/99992 - dc.description.abstract (摘要) Jingran indicates that the (non)occurrence of a situation that it presents contradicts the expectation, while guoran indicates that the (non)occurrence of a situation presented by it converges with the expectation. Arguing against Hsieh’s (2005, 2006a, 2006b) proposal that evaluative modals in Mandarin do not have a model-theoretic semantics, I propose that, given that the expectation serves as a modal base B which an evaluative conversational background forms, jingran presents a proposition which represents a simple necessity of negation in a possible world w with respect to B, whereas guoran presents a proposition which is equivalent to a simple necessity in a possible world w with respect to B. Contrary to Hsieh’s claim that modality in Mandarin has a language-specific property, i.e., that the semantics of certain modals in Mandarin cannot be defined in terms of possibility and necessity, I seek to fit modality in Mandarin into a bigger picture of modality in general and show that it is possible to achieve a universally valid notional category of modality, similar to the works of Kratzer (1981), though different languages may have language-specific choices for modal bases, which result in different types of modality in languages. - dc.format.extent 2016354 bytes - dc.format.mimetype application/pdf - dc.relation (關聯) 臺灣語言學期刊, 6(1), 97-118 - dc.relation (關聯) Taiwan Journal of Linguistics - dc.subject (關鍵詞) jingran; guoran; evaluative modals; modality; semantics; Mandarin - dc.title (題名) Antonyms? Presuppositions? On the Semantics of Two Evaluative Modals Jingran and Guoran in Mandarin - dc.type (資料類型) article - dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.6519/TJL.2008.6(1).3 - dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.6519/TJL.2008.6(1).3 -
