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Counterfactual sentences in Chinese and the interpretation of their counterfactuality.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Counterfactual sentences in Chinese and the interpretation of their counterfactuality./
Author:	Li, Bing.
Description:	52 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 34-02, page: 0519.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International34-02.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1376326

Counterfactual sentences in Chinese and the interpretation of their counterfactuality.
Li, Bing.

Counterfactual sentences in Chinese and the interpretation of their counterfactuality. - 52 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 34-02, page: 0519.

Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University, 1995.

It has been long held in Chinese linguistics as well as in philosophy that Chinese usually does not distinguish indicative conditionals from counterfactual conditionals (Chao, 1959; Li & Thompson, 1981; Bloom, 1981, 1984). The aim of the present thesis is to argue for and assert that there are Chinese conditional sentences that are interpreted unambiguously as counterfactuals. Two sets of data are analyzed in support of the thesis. One contains conditionals whose antecedents fit the linguistic structure of (bu-shi (p ...)), where it is claimed that shi is an anaphoric demonstrative which triggers a presupposition that the complement proposition is true. The term 'Definite Propositional Description (DPD)' is used to refer to this semantic phenomenon. The other case consists of conditionals containing certain indexical expressions interpreted relative to certain contextualization. The term 'Indexical Counterfactuality (IC)' is used for the counterfactual nature of these conditional sentences.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

Counterfactual sentences in Chinese and the interpretation of their counterfactuality.
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