A constraint-based analysis of A-NOT-A questions in Mandarin Chinese
The A-NOT-A structure is one way to express polar questions in Mandarin Chinese. The present study provides a constraint-based analysis of A-NOT-A questions in Mandarin Chinese within the framework of HPSG (Pollard & Sag, 1994) and MRS (Copestake et al., 2005). We propose two possible approaches...
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| Format: | Conference Paper |
| Language: | en_US |
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2016
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80391 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40499 http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/HPSG/2015/ |
| Summary: | The A-NOT-A structure is one way to express polar questions in Mandarin Chinese. The present study provides a constraint-based analysis of A-NOT-A questions in Mandarin Chinese within the framework of HPSG (Pollard & Sag, 1994) and MRS (Copestake et al., 2005). We propose two possible approaches to analysing the A-NOT-A structure — a morphological/lexical approach as well as a syntactic approach — and illustrate their implementation, as well as their respective strengths and weaknesses. |
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