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Hierarchical Structure of Different Licensers in Chinese VP-Ellipsis

Author: DengLiFang
Tutor: HeChuanSheng
School: Hunan University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Verb omitted Consented to the word Negative Positive and negative focus Hierarchy
CLC: H146
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Verb is present in natural language is a very common phenomenon, many linguists made relevant to this study. Such as Sag (1976), Williams (1977), Lopez (2000), Winkler (2000), Lobeck (1995) on the verb is omitted from the syntactic level were studied; while some scholars, such as Lappin (1996), Hardt (1993) then From the semantic point of view of the verb is omitted put forward their own views. In previous literature, linguists have studied verb is mainly focused on the following two points: First, the verb is omitted Licensing Conditions (Lopez, 2000; Johnson, 1997; Kehler, 2000); two definitions is omitted components (Lappin, 1996; Hardt, 1993; Hestvik, 1995). About Chinese verbs are omitted and in other languages, especially English verb omitted distinction also attracted the attention of many scholars, most linguists have recognized auxiliary verbs can be consented to omit (Chao, 1987; Lobeck, 1995; Lopez, 2000 ), in Chinese, the structure can be consented to omit the word verbs are: \(Wu, 2002; Wei Tingji, 2008). For example: (1) a. Connotes like singing, John Doe is. b. Zhang speaks French, John Doe will. c. Joe Smith saw his mother, and John Doe did not. Many linguists regard the structural analysis of verb is more than words on a variety of different types consented to the same tree node I under (Huang, 1988a; Li Huiju, 2002), as follows: (2) has Very few people can they be subdivided. Only Soh (2007) in the latest one paper referred to the different consented Chinese word omit the verb structure has a different hierarchy. She pointed out that dummy \Its structure is expressed as follows: (3) Soh study is on the analysis of the verb is omitted sentence is valuable but often overlooked details of a study, but her analysis as well as its shortcomings. Through analysis, Soh theory at least the following deficiencies: 1. Soh center that ΣP is no word in the sentence negation symbol \She ignored the omitted sentence after a clause is a clause before or negative response to the proposition certainly respond. (2) analysis found that in addition to the main verb \3 types of modal verbs in the verb is the location of the sentence is not arbitrary. This is essentially a correction to this research to make better and more explanatory. This analysis is divided into the following: 1. \2 Chinese negation sign \The \3 This article refers to Winlker (2000) focus on the pros and cons (Polarity focus) and Wei Tingji (2008) theory that dummy \the highest, higher than the sentence negation (Sentential negation) \Table emphasize \And the main verb \4 modal verb can be further divided to enhance modal verbs (Raising modal) such as \Raising modal position than the Control modal high.

Hierarchical Structure of Different Licensers in Chinese VP-Ellipsis

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