Varieties of Alternatives

Explicitly analyses a variety of linguistic phenomena in Mandarin
Includes a combination of theoretical innovations and empirical coverage
Explores the role of alternatives in natural language grammar

Explicitly analyses a variety of linguistic phenomena in Mandarin Includes a combination of theoretical innovations and empirical coverage Explores the role of alternatives in natural language grammar Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Dr. Mingming Liu received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2016 and currently works as an assistant professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, China. His work has addressed several aspects of Mandarin grammar: focus particles such as the famous dou each, all, even, already and other only-like exclusives, wh-expressions and wh-conditionals, Mandarin conditionals in general and resultative verb compounds. He has published articles in several peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Background.- Chapter 3. Varieties of Alternatives: Mandarin Focus Particles.- Chapter 4. More Exclusives.- Chapter 5. Mandarin Wh-conditionals: Challenges and Facts.- Chapter 6. Proposal-A: Wh-conditionals as Interrogative Conditionals.- Chapter 7. Proposal-B: Wh-conditionals as Interrogative Dependency.- Chapter 8. Concluding Remarks.