Multi-dimensional meanings of subjective adverbs - Case study of mandarin Chinese adverb pianpian

Mi Zhou; Yao Yao; Chu-Ren Huang

Multi-dimensional meanings of subjective adverbs - Case study of mandarin Chinese adverb pianpian

Mi Zhou
, Yao Yao
, Chu-Ren Huang

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

Abstract

The combination of strict scalar and exclusive components of focus particles has been considered to be exceptional and rare in the literature. In this study, we identify and analyze a frequently used multi-dimensional focus particle pianpian 偏偏 in Mandarin Chinese and claim that it is a strictly scalar exclusive focus particle (which accordingly show evaluative properties). The analysis is based on data from CCL corpus. Different from English only, the scalar feature of pianpian is non-optional and does not depend on the lexical specification of the focus. Furthermore, the negation of the more expected/positive alternatives by pianpian gives rise to interesting interactions with surprisal, modality and speaker-orientedness.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Editors	Rachel Edita Roxas
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	312-318
Number of pages	7
Publication status	Published - Nov 2017
Event	31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2017 - Cebu City, Philippines Duration: 16 Nov 2017 → 18 Nov 2017

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Conference	31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2017
Country/Territory	Philippines
City	Cebu City
Period	16/11/17 → 18/11/17

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Language and Linguistics
Computer Science (miscellaneous)

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Zhou, M, Yao, Y & Huang, C-R 2017, Multi-dimensional meanings of subjective adverbs - Case study of mandarin Chinese adverb pianpian. in RE Roxas (ed.), Proceedings of the 31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 312-318, 31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2017, Cebu City, Philippines, 16/11/17. <https://aclanthology.org/Y17-1042/>

Multi-dimensional meanings of subjective adverbs - Case study of mandarin Chinese adverb pianpian. / Zhou, Mi; Yao, Yao; Huang, Chu-Ren.
Proceedings of the 31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. ed. / Rachel Edita Roxas. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017. p. 312-318.

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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