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Soh, Hooi Ling

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“…Languages 2023, 8, 142 2 of 23 However, not everybody supports a tenseless analysis for Sinitic (for a brief overview of the debate, see Soh 2014). Indeed, several types of items (modal and aspectual particles, verbs, etc.)…”

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Tense as a Grammatical Category in Sinitic: A Critical Overview

Arcodia

2023

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Sinitic languages are very often described as tenseless, since they are generally seen as lacking ‘true’ grammatical markers of tense: thus, the interpretation of time reference relies on other factors, such as aspect, modal verbs, and the use of time expressions. However, the debate concerning the tenseless nature of Chinese has not been settled yet: several types of items in Sinitic have been analyzed as expressing both aspect and tense, tense and modality, or even tense only. In this paper, we offer a critical analysis of the proposals made in the description of Standard Mandarin Chinese and (so-called) Chinese dialects concerning grammatical exponents of tense. We shall show that there appears to be a very broad degree of variation within Sinitic in the type and nature of tense(-like) meanings expressed, with different degrees of overlap between tense and other TAM categories (i.e., aspect and modality), and different degrees of grammaticalisation of alleged tense markers. Furthermore, the most grammaticalised tense markers are located in subregions within northern China: we shall thus discuss the relevance of our data for the areal typology of Sinitic.

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Tense as a Grammatical Category in Sinitic: A Critical Overview

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2023

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“…(Li & Thompson, 1981;J.-W. Lin, 2003). Since aspectual markers have been viewed as a useful device to locate the temporal reference of a sentence in Mandarin, it has received substantial attention in the literature (Chan, 1980;Li & Thompson, 1981;Klein, Li, & Hendriks, 2000;J.-W. Lin, 2003J.-W. Lin, , 2006Soh & Kuo, 2005;Soh & Gao, 2007;Yang, 2011;Soh, 2014; to mention only a few). However, previous work on aspectual markers has mostly focused on clauses with rather simple syntactic structures, and sentences with more complex structures have been much less discussed.…”

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Mandarin -guo Under Control: An Experimental Study

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This thesis examines the experiential aspectual marker-guo under control in Mandarin. The status of-guo under control has been a subject of controversy, involving two important theoretical questions. The first question concerns whether-guo under control is syntactically associated with the matrix verb or the embedded verb. The second question deals with whether, in terms of interpretive effects,-guo under control triggers actuality entailments. This thesis addresses the latter question through an interpretive judgment test conducted among 260 native Mandarin speakers. In the test, three control verbs (changshi 'try', guli 'encourage', and zuzhi 'oppose') were selected, each of which was combined with three respective aspectual conditions of-guo (no-guo, matrix-guo, and embedded-guo), yielding a total of nine sentence stimuli. Each sentence stimulus, accompanied by one of two contextual actualization conditions, was rated on a Likert Scale of 1-5. The corresponding ratings demonstrated how well each stimulus fit in the given contextual actualization condition. All elicited ratings were z-transformed by participant and analyzed with a mixed-effects regression model. The results show that there is no positive evidence that-guo under control triggers actuality entailments. Furthermore, these also suggest that interpretive effects may not be efficacious evidence for the existing debate about Mandarin control and non-control constructions in the literature.

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Aspectuality and Subjectivity of Le in Chinese Conditionals

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Yuan

2023

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Tense as a Grammatical Category in Sinitic: A Critical Overview

Tense as a Grammatical Category in Sinitic: A Critical Overview

Mandarin -guo Under Control: An Experimental Study

Aspectuality and Subjectivity of Le in Chinese Conditionals

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