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This paper argues that “jìng” has exclusiveness, while the basic exclusive meaning does not exist in “doū”. The exclusiveness of “doū” is deduced from the collective meaning. Thus, we can say that “doū” triggers the exclusive meaning or “doū” sentence has exclusiveness. In some context, the exclusive meaning of “doū” sentence is defeasible. Moreover, this paper points out that besides the quantifying direction of “jìng” and “doū”, contrastive focus and stress also play an important role in the generation of the exclusive meaning.
This research is sponsored by the National Social Science Fund Major Project “Chinese parataxis characteristic research and large knowledge base and corpus construction under the background of international Chinese language education” (Approval No.: 12&ZD175). We hereby express our sincere thanks.
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Li, Q. (2016). “净” (jìng) and “都” (doū), which one has exclusiveness?. In: Dong, M., Lin, J., Tang, X. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10085. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49508-8_53
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