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Intensification and Modal Necessity in Mandarin Chinese

Intensification and Modal Necessity in Mandarin Chinese

Wu, Jiun-Shiung

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics

ChineseWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 1138065196
ISBN13: 9781138065192
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 20 2018
Pages: 190
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book addresses intensification and modal necessity in Mandarin Chinese.

Intensification is used in this book to describe the speaker's emphasis on a proposition, because, by emphasizing on a proposition, the speaker intensifies the degree of his/her confidence and affirmativeness toward the truth of a proposition, cf. the distinction between 'weaker' and 'stronger'. Modal necessity discussed in this book refers either to the speaker's certainty regarding the truth of an inference, judgment or stipulation, that is, epistemic necessity or to the speaker's certainty concerning the obligatoriness of a proposition, based on rules or regulations, i.e., deontic necessity. This book examines a series of lexical items in Mandarin Chinese that express either intensification or modal necessity, provides a unified semantics and also presents how these lexical items are semantically distinct.

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