Title: | Aspectual selection and negation in Mandarin Chinese |
Authors: | Lin, JW 交大名義發表 National Chiao Tung University |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
Abstract: | This paper argues that the distributions of bu 'not' and mei 'not' in Mandarin Chinese can be accounted for in terms of their aspectual selections. I propose that while mei aspectually selects an event as its complement, bu aspectually selects as its complement a stative situation that requires no input of energy in order to obtain that situation. I show that this approach to the distributions of bu and mei better accounts for the data than previous analyses such as Huang (1988), Ernst (1995), and Lee and Pan (2001). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11536/27287 |
ISSN: | 0024-3949 |
Journal: | LINGUISTICS |
Volume: | 41 |
Issue: | 3 |
Begin Page: | 425 |
End Page: | 459 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles |
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