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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1349
dc.title	How Subjective Is the Subject?. A Fresh Look at Grammatical Relations in Mandarin Chinese
dc.contributor.author	Morbiato Anna
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2018/1/how-subjective-is-the-subject/
dc.description.abstract	This article re-examines the issue of grammatical relations in Mandarin Chinese in light of the results of recent large-scale typological research on grammatical relations (henceforth GRs) worldwide. Specifically, it discusses three syntactic operations and constructions that are cross-linguistically relevant to the definition of grammatical relations, namely relativisation, reflexivisation, and quantifier float. The study adopts a strictly language-internal typological approach and avails itself of natural linguistic data or sentences sanity-checked by native speakers. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, it explores the hypothesis that, in line with various other languages, GRs in Mandarin Chinese are construction-specific. Second, it proposes an alternative approach capable of explaining the conflicting evidence often pointed out in the literature on GRs and subjecthood in Mandarin Chinese.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 54 \| Giugno 2018
dc.issued	2018-06-25
dc.dateAccepted	2018-03-02
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-01-16
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-3042
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2018/01/014
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Argument selectors
dc.subject	Argument selectors
dc.subject	Grammatical relations
dc.subject	Grammatical relations
dc.subject	Mandarin Chinese
dc.subject	Mandarin Chinese
dc.subject	Quantifier float
dc.subject	Quantifier float
dc.subject	Reflexivisation
dc.subject	Reflexivisation

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A Fresh Look at Grammatical Relations in Mandarin Chinese

Anna Morbiato Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia; The University of Sydney, Australia

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abstract

This article re-examines the issue of grammatical relations in Mandarin Chinese in light of the results of recent large-scale typological research on grammatical relations (henceforth GRs) worldwide. Specifically, it discusses three syntactic operations and constructions that are cross-linguistically relevant to the definition of grammatical relations, namely relativisation, reflexivisation, and quantifier float. The study adopts a strictly language-internal typological approach and avails itself of natural linguistic data or sentences sanity-checked by native speakers. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, it explores the hypothesis that, in line with various other languages, GRs in Mandarin Chinese are construction-specific. Second, it proposes an alternative approach capable of explaining the conflicting evidence often pointed out in the literature on GRs and subjecthood in Mandarin Chinese.

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25 Giugno 2018

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02 Marzo 2018

Presentato

16 Gennaio 2018

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Keywords: Reflexivisation • Mandarin Chinese • Argument selectors • Grammatical relations • Quantifier float

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