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From Minimal Contrast to Meaning ConstructAmbiguity of Epistemic Hui in Mandarin Chinese Revisited: Toward a Unified Semantics

From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct: Ambiguity of Epistemic Hui in Mandarin Chinese... [In this paper, I classify the senses of epistemic hui into two types: a future one and a generalizing one, and argue that hui has three core semantic properties. First, it expresses a non-posteriority reading. Second, it complies with a constraint of alternatives. Third, it denotes evidentiality. I demonstrate that specificity of a situation can tell future and generalizing senses apart.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

From Minimal Contrast to Meaning ConstructAmbiguity of Epistemic Hui in Mandarin Chinese Revisited: Toward a Unified Semantics

Part of the Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics Book Series (volume 9)
Editors: Su, Qi; Zhan, Weidong
Wu, Jiun-Shiung
From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct — Sep 26, 2019
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Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
Copyright
© Peking University Press 2020
ISBN
978-981-32-9239-0
Pages
51 –62
DOI
10.1007/978-981-32-9240-6_4
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Abstract

[In this paper, I classify the senses of epistemic hui into two types: a future one and a generalizing one, and argue that hui has three core semantic properties. First, it expresses a non-posteriority reading. Second, it complies with a constraint of alternatives. Third, it denotes evidentiality. I demonstrate that specificity of a situation can tell future and generalizing senses apart.]

Published: Sep 26, 2019

Keywords: hui; Evidentiality; Epistemic modality; Future; Modality; Mandarin Chinese

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