Similarities and Differences between Chinese and English

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	Similarities and Differences between Chinese and English
	Qin, J.; Xu, J.
	2020-02-01
Source Publication	Chinese Lexical Semantics
Publication Place	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Pages	810-820
Abstract	Sluicing refers to a certain type of compound sentence in which one clause is a wh question where all sentential elements, but the wh-phrase itself alone, are omitted. In semantic interpretation, a sluicing sentence is comparable to a full wh interrogative. The study of sluicing sentence involves several important aspects of syntactic theory. Zhang and Xu once offer a unified account of sluicing in Chinese and English from the perspective of predicative Empty Category ([1]). It is noted in this article that one important issue still remains to be resolved regarding the similarities and differences between Chinese and English in sluicing: What remains after deletion in English is the wh-phrase only, but there must be a copular verb going with the retained wh-phrase in Chinese. As the major new viewpoint articulated in this article, the above cross-linguistic contrast is illustrated to more principally explainable by appealing to the theory of focus rather than by using ad hoc stipulations.
Keyword	Sluicing focus Chinese English similarity difference
Language	英語English
ISBN	9783030381882
The Source to Article	PB_Publication
PUB ID	49943
Document Type	Book chapter
Collection	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Corresponding Author	Xu, J.
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Qin, J.,Xu, J.. Similarities and Differences between Chinese and English[M]. Chinese Lexical Semantics, Cham, Switzerland:Springer, 2020, 810-820.
APA	Qin, J.., & Xu, J. (2020). Similarities and Differences between Chinese and English. Chinese Lexical Semantics, 810-820.

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