Keeping Dou as a Simple Distributor

Authors

  • Zhuo Chen The Graduate Center Author

Abstract

Against the even analysis of dou, this paper argues that a simple distributor semantics
 of dou can be maintained with two assumptions: (i) Mandarin sentences allow an optionally
 overt topic set [12]; (ii) scalar dou-sentences have an optionally overt preposition lian [1, 15].

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Published

2019-12-01

Issue

2019: Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium

Section

Conference Proceedings

License

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Chen, Z. (2019). Keeping Dou as a Simple Distributor. Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 71-80. https://platform.openjournals.nl/PAC/article/view/21976