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The Semantic Analysis and Representation of “Hai-NP-Ne” Construction with NP Quoted from Context

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This paper mainly analyzes the semantics of three types of “hai-NP-ne” construction with NP quoted from context, formalizes their semantics with the scale structure, and compares similarities and differences among these three types of construction semantics. It is found that all these three types of “hai-NP-ne” are at the lower point of entailing scales. Meanwhile, three different types of entailing scales, including likelihood scale, felicity scale, and truth value scale, are activated by the various types of verbs that are omitted in the “hai-NP-ne” construction. As a result, various meanings are derived.

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Acknowledgments

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Professor Zhan Weidong, Dr. Huang Sisi, Dr. Kou Xin, Ke Lizhen for their helpful advice and insightful comments. This research is supported by the major project of Humanities & Social Science Fund of Ministry of Education of China (Project No. 15JJD740002).

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Cao, X. (2020). The Semantic Analysis and Representation of “Hai-NP-Ne” Construction with NP Quoted from Context. In: Hong, JF., Zhang, Y., Liu, P. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_5

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