Chinese DE and the DE-construction

dc.contributor.author	Zhang, Ning
dc.date.accessioned	2010-04-28T10:30:16Z
dc.date.available	2010-04-28T10:30:16Z
dc.date.issued	2010-04-28T10:30:16Z
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10272/3199
dc.description.abstract	This paper analyzes the derivations of the DE construction, showing that an antecedent-free DE construction is derived by deverbalization and an antecedent-dependent DE construction is derived by ellipsis. Semantically, the former process is substantivization and the latter defocalization. Relating the antecedent-dependent DE construction to other nominal ellipses and the verb gapping construciton, I discuss a new type of ellipsis which can take an ellipsis site as its linguistic antecedent. Furthermore, I argue that the syntactic status of the word de in a nominal is a functional category, heading an nP consistently.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
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dc.title	Chinese DE and the DE-construction	en_US
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dc.contributor.author	Zhang, Ning
dc.date.accessioned	2010-04-28T10:30:16Z
dc.date.available	2010-04-28T10:30:16Z
dc.date.issued	2010-04-28T10:30:16Z
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10272/3199
dc.description.abstract	This paper analyzes the derivations of the DE construction, showing that an antecedent-free DE construction is derived by deverbalization and an antecedent-dependent DE construction is derived by ellipsis. Semantically, the former process is substantivization and the latter defocalization. Relating the antecedent-dependent DE construction to other nominal ellipses and the verb gapping construciton, I discuss a new type of ellipsis which can take an ellipsis site as its linguistic antecedent. Furthermore, I argue that the syntactic status of the word de in a nominal is a functional category, heading an nP consistently.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.title	Chinese DE and the DE-construction	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	en_US
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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