The Semantics of Bare Object Noun Phrases with Secondary Predicates in Existential Sentences in Mandarin Chinese

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 外國語文學系 === 97 === This thesis deals with the semantic interpretation of bare noun phrases (BNPs) in Chinese existential sentences of the form (NP1) V NP2 XP (excluding YOU-sentences). I show, via Rothstein’s (2004) entailment test, that the post-NP2 XP is a secondary predicate, a...

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Main Authors: Silvia Yu-ju Hung, 洪郁茹
Other Authors: Mary Wu
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06501366429941677261