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This paper focuses on “Da ‘big’ + NP (de)” structure in Chinese. Based on the predicate scale theory, the relations between the temporal NP and the event in a sentence have been classified into three categories: positively correlated, negatively correlated, and uncorrelated. By the analysis of Uncorrelated data, we argue that “Da + NP (de)” structure is an implicit subjective negation marker. The temporal NP in this structure refers to the speech time, rather than the semantic features and pragmatic information, which was traditionally considered critical for the structure.
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Zhang, X. (2021). Subjective Negative Structure in Chinese: A Case Study of “Da ‘Big’ + NP (De)” Sentence with the Uncorrelated Relations. In: Liu, M., Kit, C., Su, Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12278. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81197-6_11
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