清華語言所新068次專題演講公告
國立清華大學語言學研究所新068次專題演講公告
講者：蔡承佑 (Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai, City University of Hong Kong)
講題：Exhaustivity and Bare Numeral Phrases
時間：2019年12月6日(星期五) 12:30-14:00
地點：人社院 B305 室
摘要：A well-known generalization about bare numeral phrases (BNPs) in Mandarin (e.g., san-ge ren ‘three people’) is that they tend to require the presence of the existential verb you ‘have’ when in subject position of episodic sentences, but there are some notable exceptions. This talk concentrates on the data in Li (1998) and Tsai (2001) and presents an exhaustivity-based account for the occurrences of subject BNPs, according to which they must be exhaustively interpreted. A wide range of quantificational constructions where Mandarin subject BNPs are licensed will be surveyed (including cumulative, scalar focus, modal, and sufficiency), and it will be argued that exhaustively is the semantic common core of all these (otherwise heterogeneous) constructions. Comparisons of the proposal with previous approaches will also be discussed.
講者：蔡承佑 (Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai, City University of Hong Kong)
講題：Exhaustivity and Bare Numeral Phrases
時間：2019年12月6日(星期五) 12:30-14:00
地點：人社院 B305 室
摘要：A well-known generalization about bare numeral phrases (BNPs) in Mandarin (e.g., san-ge ren ‘three people’) is that they tend to require the presence of the existential verb you ‘have’ when in subject position of episodic sentences, but there are some notable exceptions. This talk concentrates on the data in Li (1998) and Tsai (2001) and presents an exhaustivity-based account for the occurrences of subject BNPs, according to which they must be exhaustively interpreted. A wide range of quantificational constructions where Mandarin subject BNPs are licensed will be surveyed (including cumulative, scalar focus, modal, and sufficiency), and it will be argued that exhaustively is the semantic common core of all these (otherwise heterogeneous) constructions. Comparisons of the proposal with previous approaches will also be discussed.