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In modern Chinese, “zhenshi” is mainly used to elicit the subjective evaluation of the speaker and closely linked to the speaker’s affective. It can be seen as an affective-sensitive operator. Based on the corpus of contemporary Chinese fiction, we analyze its syntactic features and lexical semantics in this article, and divide it into two categories: the objective truth and the subjective emphasis.
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Liu, Z., Zhou, W. (2013). Affective-Sensitive Operator “zhenshi”. In: Liu, P., Su, Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8229. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45185-0_11
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