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Reduction and Anaphoric Relations in Chinese (Zero, Discourse, Gapping, Pronouns, Reflexives, Syntactic Ellipsis).

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Title/Author:	Reduction and Anaphoric Relations in Chinese (Zero, Discourse, Gapping, Pronouns, Reflexives, Syntactic Ellipsis)./
Author:	Li, Mei-Du.
Description:	1 online resource (270 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 46-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International46-07A.
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ISBN:	9798205601924

Reduction and Anaphoric Relations in Chinese (Zero, Discourse, Gapping, Pronouns, Reflexives, Syntactic Ellipsis).
Li, Mei-Du.

Reduction and Anaphoric Relations in Chinese (Zero, Discourse, Gapping, Pronouns, Reflexives, Syntactic Ellipsis). - 1 online resource (270 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 46-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1985.

Includes bibliographical references

In ordinary speech identical recurring elements are often omitted or replaced by a pro-form. All languages exploit such redundancy-reduction devices in the interest of expediting the process of communication. A complex set of rules and conditions determine what can and cannot be omitted or replaced by an anaphoric shorthand. This dissertation examines the syntactic environments in which reduced constituents may appear. Such syntactic environments are represented by coordinate and subordinate sentence structures. Within these structures, I analyze the rules or constraints on reduction in Chinese together with the properties or characteristics the anaphors and the antecedents may have to possess. An important reduction phenomenon of Gapping is demonstrated to exist in Chinese. Moreover, I identify four syntactic types of Chinese verbs. These four categories permit distinct manifestations of NP-anaphora in Chinese surface structures to be clearly predicted and delineated. As for pronominals, I show that zero pronouns can occur in any argument positions in Chinese. They can be indentified in three ways: in syntax, in discourse, and in pragmatics (i.e. extra-linguistically). Limiting oneself to solely one aspect such as on the syntactic or on the sentence level alone, one can never achieve the goal of accounting for zero anaphors in sentences satisfactorily. In an analysis of reflexives, it is argued that syntactic constraints cannot alone satisfactorily account for the distribution of Chinese reflexives. To fully comprehend Chinese NP-anaphora, one must analyze it in context beyond the sentence level. I emphasize and delineate the significance and relationship between sentence grammar and discourse grammar. I conclude that this delineation should be crucial in further exploration of Chinese NP-anaphora.

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Reduction and Anaphoric Relations in Chinese (Zero, Discourse, Gapping, Pronouns, Reflexives, Syntactic Ellipsis).
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