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Temporal constraints on event repetition : the case of Mandarin Chinese ZAI| old_uid | 2728 |
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| title | Temporal constraints on event repetition : the case of Mandarin Chinese ZAI |
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| start_date | 2007/04/30 |
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| schedule | 14h30-16h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | The Mandarin Chinese adverb ZAI, in its adverbial use, displays a number of
peculiarities - concerning the temporal orientation of the predicate, its aspectual
properties and the syntactic/logical role of the proposition it occurs - which, as a whole, have been subsumed under the feature "irrealis". In our analysis, we consider ZAI as an additive particle in the domain of events and we propose to derive its "irrealis" flavour from constraints on the structure and temporal location of the asserted event. As an additive particle, ZAI conveys a presupposition which cannot be recovered independently from the context of utterance. |
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| responsibles | Copley |
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