On the semantics of the Chinese modal adverb you

This study aims to investigate the modal meamngs of you under Kratzer (1981)'s and Xie (2006)'s modality theory. Data is collected from Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Chinese (ASBCMC hereafter). In ASBCMC, you has two types of modal meanings. It expresses the divergence between...

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Main Author: Ou, Jiali
Language:English
Published: HKBU Institutional Repository 2015
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Online Access:https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/146