Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Mandarin Chinese Wh-the-hell and Point-of-View Operator

.  Based on previously unnoted data concerning wh‐the‐hell attitude‐bearing questions in Mandarin Chinese, I argue that integrating the pragmatic notion “point of view” into the syntactic computation enables us to capture certain properties of wh‐the‐hell questions in Mandarin Chinese in a systemati...

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Published in:	Syntax (Oxford, England) Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 1 - 24
Main Author:	Chou, Chao-Ting Tim
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2012
Subjects:	Attitudes Causality Chinese languages Computation Embedded constructions Logophoricity Mandarin Point of View Pragmatics Property Questions Syntax Syntax Pragmatics Interface Valuation
ISSN:	1368-0005, 1467-9612
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