Projective Meaning in Mandarin Chinese: A Case Study Approach

by Mingya Liu, Mingya, Liu

Multidimensional semantic theory has greatly influenced the semantic and pragmatic research of natural languages in the past few decades, but Chinese-based research in this direction has been very scarce so far.
This monograph, through five case studies, investigates the distributional, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of adverbs, logical words (negative words and conditional connectives), focus particles, pleonastic negation and classifiers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110707748
• ISBN13: 9783110707748
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 280 Pages