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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liu, Tianhan
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54769