Referential Dependence of Relational Nouns in Mandarin:An Experimental Study

摘要：

Relational nouns (hereafter RNs) can be roughly defined as nouns having more than one argument (Berker, 1995; Asudeh, 2005). Kinship nouns like father, bearing relation as their lexical meaning (Berker and Dowty, 1993), are of the prototype of RNs. This study is restricted to lexical RNs. RNs, like reflexives, also pick up their reference from antecedents which c-command them. For example, in the sentence John loves his father, the referent of father depends on the interpretation of the referent of his. We refer to this phenomenon as referential dependence.

作者: Ke, Hezhao Zhao, Ya Liu, Shuying

作者单位: Beijing Language and Culture University

会议类型: 国内会议

会议名称: 第五届形式语言学国际研讨会

会议地点: 光盘

会议语种:英文

页码: 61-62

在线出版日期: 2011-12-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）