论文信息 - On the Meaning of Shenme ‘what’ in Chinese Bare Conditionals and its Implications for Carlson’s Semantics of Bare Plurals

On the Meaning of Shenme ‘what’ in Chinese Bare Conditionals and its Implications for Carlson’s Semantics of Bare Plurals

This paper shows that the semantics of shenme 'what' exhibits a double quantification phenomenon in Chinese bare conditionals. I show that such double quantification can be nicely accounted for if one adopts Carlosn's semantics of bare plurals and verb meanings as well as the assumption that shenme 'what' may denote kinds of things as bare plurals do.

Jo-Wang Lin | Jo-Wang Lin

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