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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| 张钦良教授 (语言学及现代语言系) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10831-014-9130-x |
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摘要Mandarin Chinese has the special placeholder use of wh-words to substitute phrases, words or syllables that the speaker cannot utter for some pragmatic reason(s). Wh-placeholders are rather common in spoken Mandarin. Typical contexts include failure to recall somebody's name and avoidance of taboo words. The speaker generally presupposes that the intended meaning is salient enough for the hearer(s) to infer from the context. Morphologically, a wh-placeholder usually consists of na-ge (demonstrative-classifier) and a wh-word. Syntactically, a wh-placeholder can correspond to elements of different categories and positions that are not possible with interrogative, indefinite and universally quantified wh-words, e.g. verbs, adjectives, syllables, etc. This paper proposes that a wh-placeholder is a metalinguistic demonstrative expression that refers to the intended linguistic expression, as opposed to a regular demonstrative that refers to a real world object. It can flexibly shift to the required semantic type via a silent type-shifting function, resulting in the flexibility of syntactic distribution. The demonstrative na-ge is a definite operator that provides the quantification force for the wh-word, which gives rise to the definite reference to linguistic objects.
着者Cheung LYL
期刊名称JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS
详细描述Volume 24, Issue 3
出版年份2http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/015
月份8
日期1
卷号24
期次3
出版社SPRINGER
页次271 - 3http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/08
国际标準期刊号http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/0925-8558
电子国际标準期刊号1572-856http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/0
语言英式英语
关键词Chinese; Demonstrative; Metalinguistic Analysis; Placeholder; Wh-word
Web of Science 学科类别Language & Linguistics; Linguistics
