| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 英語學系 === 89 === ABSTRACT
In Mandarin Chinese, zero anaphors are frequently used in the discourse framework. There is no grammatical requirement to have a subject in each Chinese sentence because a salient feature of Mandarin grammar is that noun phrases that are understood from context do not need to be specified. Thus, this study aims to analyze Chinese zero anaphors in the discourse domain. In this study, three principles are proposed to recover the correct referent for the zero anaphors. They are the closeness principle, the opening entity dominance principle and the contextual principle. Each of them is used to deal with different cases. The closeness principle, for example, is used to deal with the case where the referent of the null anaphoric noun phrases switches to the closest new entity in the preceding clause. And the opening entity dominance principle is applied when the referent of the zero anaphors switches back to the opening entity. However, if there is a difficulty in choosing whether the new entity or the opening entity is the appropriate referent, the third principle, the contextual principle is applied. Through the help of those three recovery principles, the ambiguity in interpreting Chinese zero anaphors will be reduced to the minimum.
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