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Different subtypes of A-not-A question in Chinese are all generated through the mechanism of “Positive-Negative Reduplication” (and “Deletion”) with different restrictions and conditions, which can provide explanations for many basic commons and characteristic among these subtypes of A-not-A question and some relevant interrogative sentences. The generation abilities of A-not-A question among the different constructions are variable. And the generation mechanisms of A-not-A question and “K-VP” question play important role in issues on the confusion of classification, mixed sentence in dialects and whether it can be embedded.
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Tian, Y., Xu, J. (2014). Instantiations of the Generation Mechanism of A-not-A Question in Chinese and Some Relevant Syntactic Issues. In: Su, X., He, T. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8922. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14331-6_9
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