On the Lexical Meaning of Conditional Connectives in Chinese

摘要：

　　This paper examines some common logical notions,their explicit encoding in English and in Chinese,their representations in logic,and their semantic characterizations.Detailed treatments are given to the analysis of the necessary condition and the counterfactual protasis-inducer yàobúshì (if-not-be) in Chinese.Factors affecting the comprehension of these terms are explored in detail.Given that the characterization of the necessary condition is a rather familiar topic,the novel aspect of this study lies in the analysis of yàobúshì,which is characterized here as an explicit counterfactual marker taking on a proposition which is both veridical and a falsifying contingent.

关键词： Chinese conditionals Chinese counterfactuals Veridicality Contingency

作者: Yan Jiang

作者单位: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,Hong Kong,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: Chinese Lexical Semantics 15th Workshop(CLSW 2014)(第十五届汉语词汇语义学国际研讨会)

会议地点: 澳门

会议语种:英文

页码: 43-54

在线出版日期: 2014-06-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）