Modal concord in Mandarin
The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyze modal concord in Mandarin Chinese. Modal concord is a semantic phenomenon in which multiple modal words in a sentence are interpreted semantically as if there was only a single modal expression. The thesis provides a description of the Mandarin modal...
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Language: | English |
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University of British Columbia
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54769 |