Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures

by Ying Liu

Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures investigates the semantics of the cleft and cleft-related structures in Mandarin, which, over several decades, have presented analytical challenges for semantic theory.

The goal of this book, in broad terms, is three-fold: (i) to figure out what clefting adds to the semantics of a sentence; (ii) to set apart the meaning and the discourse function of each...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367631423
• ISBN13: 9780367631420
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"