Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese

This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese.

Autorentext

Daniel P. Hole, born in 1969, holds an M.A. degree in Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics and Philosophy, and a Ph.D. degree in Linguistics. Following studies in Munich, Cologne, Berlin and Taibei, he now works as an assistant lecturer at the University of Munich. His research interests include information-structure, typology and diathesis alternations, with emphasis put on the integration of results from formal semantics.

Inhalt

1. Introduction
2. Use types
3. Triggers and constraints: where parametric cái, jiù, dou and ye must (not) be used
4. Cái, jiù, dou, ye and focus semantics
5. Problems and refinements
6. Conclusions and outlook
**7. References

8. Index