Again' and 'again

A grammatical analysis of you and zai in Mandarin Chinese

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4804468
AutoresTzong-Hong Jonah Lin, Tzong‐hong Jonah Lin (National Tsing Hua University), Chi-Ming Louis Liu (0000-0001-5622-9769, Harvard University Press)
Año2009
Volumen47
Número5
Fecha de publicación2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.2009.041
OpenAlexW2117366922
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas12

This article analyzes two elements in Mandarin Chinese that denote repetition, you 'again' and zai 'again'. It has been assumed that you occurs in realis contexts, whereas zai occurs in irrealis contexts. We find that in fact each may occur in either context; furthermore, we argue that these two elements should be distinguished in terms of the structural positions they adjoin to and the event structures they occur in. We adopt Shen's (Journal of East Asian Linguistics 13: 309–336, 2004) framework of phrase structure and event structure for Mandarin Chinese sentences, and show that you adjoins to a dynamic AspP, and zai to a static vP. Our analysis accounts for a number of properties of you and zai, including their relative structural heights and their ability to induce change of the event structure of the predicate

Context (archaeology) · Event (particle physics) · Grammar · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Phrase · Phrase structure rules · Predicate (mathematical logic) · Syntax · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation