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Similarities and Differences Between Chinese and English in Sluicing and Their Theoretical Explanation | |
Qin, Yewei1; Xu, Jie1,2 | |
2020 | |
Conference Name | 20th Workshop, CLSW 2019 Chinese Lexical Semantics |
Source Publication | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
Volume | 11831 LNAI |
Pages | 810-820 |
Conference Date | June 28–30, 2019 |
Conference Place | Beijing, China |
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 in their article provide a unified account of sluicing in Chinese and English from the perspective of predicative Empty Category [1]. It is demonstrated 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 alone, 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 be more principally explainable by appealing to the theory of focus rather than by using ad hoc stipulations. |
Keyword | Chinese Difference English Focus Similarity Sluicing |
DOI | 10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_81 |
URL | View the original |
Indexed By | CPCI-S ; CPCI-SSH |
Language | 英語English |
WOS Research Area | Computer Science ; Linguistics |
WOS Subject | Computer Science, Artificial intelligenceComputer Science, Information Systems ; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications ; Linguistics ; Language & Linguistics |
WOS ID | WOS:000722310200081 |
Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85078439803 |
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Document Type | Conference paper |
Collection | DEPARTMENT OF CHINESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE |
Affiliation | 1.School of Chinese Language and Literature, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China 2.Department of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Qin, Yewei,Xu, Jie. Similarities and Differences Between Chinese and English in Sluicing and Their Theoretical Explanation[C], 2020, 810-820. |
APA | Qin, Yewei., & Xu, Jie (2020). Similarities and Differences Between Chinese and English in Sluicing and Their Theoretical Explanation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 11831 LNAI, 810-820. |
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