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A pragmatic explanation of the mei-dou co-occurrence in Mandarin

Mandarin universal terms such as mei-NPs in preverbal positions usually require the presence of dou ‘all/even’. This motivates the widely accepted idea from Lin (Nat Lang Semant 6:201–243, 1998) that Mandarin does not have genuine distributive universal quantifiers, and mei-NPs are disguised plural...

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Autor principal: Liu, Mingming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8606252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34840428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10831-021-09227-x