| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 語言學研究所 === 104 === This thesis is aimed to examine the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic behavior of intensifier geng correlative construction, and furthermore proposes a quantificational analysis approach. Syntactically, this construction differs from the canonical bi comparative construction in that it must connect with a non-gradable dynamic verbal predicate. In addition, this construction obligatorily requires two elements ‘feidan/budan/buzhi and geng’, which occur together to keep the correlative sense. Most importantly, the sequent of the two elements is ordered.
Semantically, this construction denotes the meaning of ‘not only…but also even’, which is distinct from the meaning of the canonical bi comparative construction. Besides, there is an implicit necessity operator that unselectively binds quantified variables in this construction. The quantificational force also introduces a quantificational tripartite structure. The feidan/budan/buzhi clause is mapped into the nuclear domain and the geng clause enters into the restrictive domain.
Pragmatically, this construction indicates an expectation-violation reading. That is, the dynamic verbal predicate that follows geng violates contextually-determined common knowledge. We can obtain expectation-contravention reading from the logical representation of the intensifier geng correlative construction.
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