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The Implicit Negation and Counter-Expectation of bai in Mandarin Chinese

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This paper studies the adverb bai in Mandarin Chinese, focusing on its implicit negation and counter-expectation from synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Firstly, bai indicates implicit negation which is able to entail an explicit negative sentence. Secondly, while studying the origin of bai, we are trying to trace its semantic evolution. Finally, an attempt is made to analyze counter-expectation, the pragmatic function which is caused by bai’s implicit negation and then triggers the deviation of speaker’s expectation, and therefore to explore bai’s semantic construal.

This project get the foundation from Major tender for the National Social Science Foundation: Chinese parataxis characteristic research and large knowledge base and corpus construction under the background of international Chinese language education (12&ZD175). I would like to extend my sincere thanks.

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  1. Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Jinghan Zeng & Yulin Yuan

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Zeng, J., Yuan, Y. (2015). The Implicit Negation and Counter-Expectation of bai in Mandarin Chinese. In: Lu, Q., Gao, H. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9332. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27194-1_6

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