Interpretation of indefinite shenme in Mandarin Chinese

摘要：

Indefinite shenme ‘what’ has a set of linguistic properties that distinguishes it from wh-indefinites like shei‘who’ and nali ‘where’, as illustrated below. ‘Insignificance’ interpretation In negative statements indefinite shenme can be assigned an ‘insignificance’ interpretation, in addition to the ‘none’ interpretation (1a). By contrast, wh-indefinites like shei admit only the‘none’ interpretation when they appear under negation (1b), as observed by Lin (1998).

作者: Huang, Aijun

作者单位: Macquarie University, Australia

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: 51-52

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）