Nandao-Question as a special kind of Rhetorical Question  

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Xu, Beibei

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 22nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, May 18-20, 2012, page 508–526.
Topik: rhetorical questions; nandao-Q; degenerate questions; Mandarin
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This paper addresses the syntax and semantics of a special kind of Rhetorical Question (RQ) in Mandarin, i.e. questions with nandao (nandao-Q). Nandao-Qs necessarily have rhetorical question readings. To derive this, I propose that nandao is a WH-word which takes a question denoting a single proposition and turns it into a set with the complement proposition. This analysis differs signi?cantly from earlier proposals for deriving RQ meanings as asserting the negation of the proposition denoted by its IP (cf. Sadock 1971; Han 2002 a. o).This paper addresses the syntax and semantics of a special kind of Rhetorical Question (RQ) in Mandarin, i.e. questions with nandao (nandao-Q). Nandao-Qs necessarily have rhetorical question readings. To derive this, I propose that nandao is a WH-word which takes a question denoting a single proposition and turns it into a set with the complement proposition. This analysis differs signi?cantly from earlier proposals for deriving RQ meanings as asserting the negation of the proposition denoted by its IP (cf.

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