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From Minimal Contrast to Meaning ConstructOn Occasion-Quantification and “Occasionally”: The Comparison of Mandarin Frequency Adverbs jīngcháng and ǒu’ěr

From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct: On Occasion-Quantification and “Occasionally”: The... [This paper focuses on the ways pluralization operates due to two frequency adverbs, jīngcháng and ǒu’ěr. Adopting Cusic (1981)’s ontology of eventualities involving “phases”, “events” and “occasions”, both frequency adverbs will be analyzed as verbal plurality markers of the occasion level. We claim that jīngcháng operates externally over occasions—denoted by VP, one of the three-tiered verbal units—and pluralizes over temporal intervals between two occasions, giving rise to an interpretation of plural occasions, while ǒu’ěr operates internally over occasions, which leads to an interpretation of multiple occasions and inherently entails temporal intervals between two occasions.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

From Minimal Contrast to Meaning ConstructOn Occasion-Quantification and “Occasionally”: The Comparison of Mandarin Frequency Adverbs jīngcháng and ǒu’ěr

Part of the Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics Book Series (volume 9)
Editors: Su, Qi; Zhan, Weidong
Chan, Daniel Kwang Guan; Yuan, Hua-Hung
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
119 –133
DOI
10.1007/978-981-32-9240-6_9
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Abstract

[This paper focuses on the ways pluralization operates due to two frequency adverbs, jīngcháng and ǒu’ěr. Adopting Cusic (1981)’s ontology of eventualities involving “phases”, “events” and “occasions”, both frequency adverbs will be analyzed as verbal plurality markers of the occasion level. We claim that jīngcháng operates externally over occasions—denoted by VP, one of the three-tiered verbal units—and pluralizes over temporal intervals between two occasions, giving rise to an interpretation of plural occasions, while ǒu’ěr operates internally over occasions, which leads to an interpretation of multiple occasions and inherently entails temporal intervals between two occasions.]

Published: Sep 26, 2019

Keywords: Frequency adverb; Verbal plurality; Mandarin Chinese

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