A constraint-based analysis of A-NOT-A questions in Mandarin Chinese

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https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2015.12

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The A-NOT-A structure is one way to express polar questions in Mandarin Chinese. The present study provides a constraint-based analysis of A-NOT-A questions in Mandarin Chinese within the framework of HPSG (Pollard & Sag, 1994) and MRS (Copestake et al., 2005). We propose two possible approaches to analysing the A-NOT-A structure — a morphological/lexical approach as well as a syntactic approach — and illustrate their implementation, as well as their respective strengths and weaknesses.

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2015-10-15

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Wang, Wenjie & Song, Sanghoun & Bond, Francis. 2015. A constraint-based analysis of A-NOT-A questions in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 195–214. (doi:10.21248/hpsg.2015.12) (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/836) (Accessed April 20, 2024.)

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2015: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

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Conference papers