A pragmatic explanation of the mei-dou co-occurrence in Mandarin

Liu, Mingming

doi:10.1007/s10831-021-09227-x

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“…(4) 每个 měi-gè every-CL Liu (2021) considers "the puzzle of co-occurring mei and dou." Both the quantifier mei and the multi-functional adverb dou introduce universal quantifiers, and therefore it is puzzling why mei and dou need to co-occur, let alone mandatorily in some situations.…”

Section: Principles Of Economy and Topic Prominencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This almost suggests that the appearance of dou is optional, however, and yet we know that the co-occurrence of mei and dou is often mandatory (2a, 3a). To address the phenomenon of obligatory dou, Liu (2021) resorts to a pragmatic analysis of obligatory presupposition (Amsili & Beyssade, 2010).…”

Section: Presuppositional Account Of Doumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The only difference between the two sentences is that the subject of (6a) is existentially quantified, and (6b) has a proper noun as its subject that does not introduce any new quantifier. But the two sentences have no difference in what Liu (2021) terms their "propositional alternatives," as the existential quantifier does not introduce plurality, and therefore according to Liu (2021), both sentences should be grammatical with an obligatory dou.…”

Section: Presuppositional Account Of Doumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Does it affect the rendering of quantifier scope? ( Liu (2021), ex.6) Wu (2019) explained Chinese quantifier scope as a product of principles of economy. Lin (1998) presented a decompositional analysis of mei and dou and argued that this phenomenon should be analysed as a matter of distributivity rather than quantifier scope.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lin (1998) presented a decompositional analysis of mei and dou and argued that this phenomenon should be analysed as a matter of distributivity rather than quantifier scope. Liu (2021) more recently defended the opposite view, in which a quantifier-scope analysis is necessary, and analysed dou as pragmatic.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Chinese quantifier scope, concord, and Lexical Resource Semantics

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This paper considers Chinese quantifier scope, an important, outstanding area of Chinese linguistics. In particular, there are two open questions on the subject: (1) the guiding principles that determine (a) the scopal readings of quantifiers and (b) the sometimes mandatory co-occurrence of the universal quantifier mei (every) and the universal adverb dou, and (2) the semantic functions of mei and dou and their connection to the co-occurrence of these words. We reappraise three prior accounts of these subjects, reason through their consequences on some exemplary data, offer a new explanation based upon concord, a mechanism that is commonplace in many languages, and formulate it in lexical resource semantics (LRS). We use two principles adapted from Richter and Sailer's (2004) analysis of negative concord, expanded with a new quantifier order constraint to generate a coherent answer to the two aforementioned questions.

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Section: Principles Of Economy and Topic Prominencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Presuppositional Account Of Doumentioning

confidence: 99%