Distributivity in Ellipsis in Chinese Grant
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This paper explores the phenomenon of distributivity manifest in ellipsis in Chinese. It will be proposed that in addition to standard syntactical distributivity projection a distributive reading also results from a focus projection that involves anaphoric relations from context. A distributive reading will occur if an elided string is anaphorically associated with a previous discourse that shares the predicate with what is omitted. This will extend the source of distributivity from pure syntactic phenomenon to a discourse function and captures the distribution of distributive markers like ye and dou.
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