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Temporal Behavior of Temporal Modifiers and Its Implications:

The Case of běnlái and yuánlái in Mandarin Chinese

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In this paper, I argue that contrast is an essential and indispensable part of the semantics of běnlái and yuánlái, in addition to the temporal semantics argued in [1] and [2], based on the discourse function of these two temporal mdofiers. Due to the close interaction between lexical semantics and discourse function, I propose that examining a lexical entry in discourse will give us a more complete and satisfactory picture of the semantics of the lexical entry.

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  1. Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University, 168, University Road, Minhsiung, Chiayi County, Taiwan

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  1. Peking University , Beijing, China

    Yunfang Wu

  2. National Taiwan Normal University , Taipei, Taiwan

    Jia-Fei Hong

  3. Peking University , Beijing, China

    Qi Su

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Wu, JS. (2018). Temporal Behavior of Temporal Modifiers and Its Implications:. In: Wu, Y., Hong, JF., Su, Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10709. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_7

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