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    Title: Subject Specificity, Predicate Distributivity, and Scope Interpretation
    Authors: 楊中玉
    Yang, Barry Chung-Yu
    Keywords: SUBJECT SPECIFICITY;PREDICATE DISTRIBUTIVITY;SCOPE INTERPRETATION
    Date: 2005-06
    Issue Date: 2016-08-11 10:59:32 (UTC+8)
    Abstract: This paper proposes a syntactic account for the licensing conditions and interpretations of indefinite subjects in Mandarin Chinese. Three dimensions are explored: subject specificity, predicate distributivity, and scope interpretation. We suggest that the indefinite subject be best treated as a variable, which has to be bound by certain operator, to account for its various readings. The property of its corresponding operator in turn determines the specificity of the indefinite subject: The specific/presuppositional reading is licensed by the existential predicate you `have/exist` serving as an existential quantifier YOU, while the nonspecific/ cardinal reading is licensed by either the implicit existential closure (Diesing 1992) at Mod` (Tsai 2001) or you serving as the overt realization of the existential closure. Furthermore, the predicate distributivity plays a nontrivial role in licensing indefinite subjects. I propose a hierarchical account to clarify the two confusing notions, i.e. specificity and distributivity, on the interpretation of indefinite subjects. The distributive reading of indefinite subjects is licensed at a higher position than the collective reading. Finally, the wide-scope indefinite phenomenon is attributed to the scope-independent reading (Liu 1997) which in turn is licensed by specificity and distributivity. In a word, each of the three dimensions mentioned above contributes to the interpretation of the indefinite subject in Mandarin Chinese.
    Relation: 臺灣語言學期刊, 3(1), 133-173
    Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
    Data Type: article
    DOI 連結: http://dx.doi.org/10.6519/TJL.2005.3(1).5
    DOI: 10.6519/TJL.2005.3(1).5
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