Fragment questions in Mandarin Chinese

Persian Sentence Stress Production by Mandarin Chinese Speakers

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ADVERBS IN MANDARIN WH - QUESTIONS Xin - xian

Minimal Word in Mandarin Chinese

Minimal Word is of unique significance in characterizing certain ProsodicMorphological phenomena. This paper explores the minimal word effect in Mandarin Chinese. It is shown that the minimal word phenomena in Chinese provide strong evidence supporting McCarthy & Prince’s minimality theorem and most importantly, as argued in this paper, that the minimal word constraint can also be extended to m...

Mandarin Chinese Shenme in Interaction

1.0 Introduction It is believed that language is such a species-specific capacity that only humans possess, which of course distinguishes homo sapiens from other ontogeneticallyrelated species that Darwin believes evolved from the same ancestor. And what does language do for us? As Clark (1997:193) points out, one easy but somehow misleading answer is that public language is to communicate idea...

Possessor Extraction in Mandarin Chinese

In this paper, I argue that genitive possessors should be distinguished from possessive modifiers and that possessor extraction is allowed in Chinese. Unlike previous analyses that treat sentences with possessors at the sentence-initial position as involving base-generation, I show that the construction at issue is island sensitive. My point of departure is Boškovic’s (2005) generalization that...