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This paper argues that chúfēi is a domain restrictor, which restricts the domain of quantification. More precisely, it has two functions: it can serve as either a marker of the only condition or an exceptive operator. As an only-condition marker, chúfēi marks the condition denoted by its associate element to be the only condition which is quantified by a universal/negated existential quantifier. As an exceptive operator, chúfēi subtracts the condition denoted by its associate element from the domain of a quantifier. In the case that chúfēi occurs in the first clause of a complex sentence, chúfēi usually requires some element such as cái or fŏuzé to co-occur with it because as a unary operator, chúfēi can only take its interacting element to be its argument. Since it fails to take both the subordinate clause and the main clause to be its arguments, the two clauses cannot be related semantically by chúfēi, and a co-occurring element in the main clause is thus needed.
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Zhang, L. (2016). Domain Restrictor Chúfēi and Relevant Constructions. 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_56
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