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The aspect-sensitive agent omission in Mandarin

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The aspect-sensitive agent omission in Mandarinby Yan Zhang.
Author:	Zhang, Yan.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :2025.
Description:	vii, 148 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Mandarin dialects.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-2987-9
ISBN:	9789819629879$q(electronic bk.)

The aspect-sensitive agent omission in Mandarin
Zhang, Yan.

The aspect-sensitive agent omission in Mandarin[electronic resource] /by Yan Zhang. - Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :2025. - vii, 148 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - SpringerBriefs in linguistics,2197-0017. - SpringerBriefs in linguistics..

Introduction -- Agent omission with -za -- Agent omission with -zhe -- Agent omission with -le -- Agent omission with -guo -- Concluding remarks.

Open access.

This open access book aims to provide an explanatory account for the phenomenon of absent external arguments in Mandarin Chinese. It starts from the observation that although expletivizing an agent is considered impossible cross-linguistically, it is possible in Mandarin. To account for this exceptional behavior, it proposes the M parameter, which suggests that English and Chinese differ in whether the agentive entailments of the root are grammatically codified in selection for the feature [+m]. While the M parameter provides a grammatical basis for when omission of the external argument is possible in a given language, this book argues that expletivization in general is subject to a variant of the Proper Containment Condition (Rappaport Hovav and Levin, 2012), which is dubbed the Aspectual Proper Containment Condition (APCC). The APCC is concerned with the relation between the interval yielded by aspect and the situation in the speaker/hearer's mental model that obtains during that interval. It requires that the external argument be eliminated if and only if its referent does not participate in the situation in the mental model during that interval. This open access book demonstrates that in the vast majority of cases the APCC correctly predicts agent omission in Mandarin sentences containing one of the four aspectual markers (-zai, -zhe, -le, and -guo), with a few exceptions where additional restrictions are at play.

ISBN: 9789819629879$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-96-2987-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

535078
Mandarin dialects.

LC Class. No.: PL1891

Dewey Class. No.: 495.15

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