Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference (한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집)

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Ambiguity in the Negative V+bo NP Construction in Taiwanese Southern Min

  • Huang, Hui-Yu (Graduate Institute of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, National Chiao Tung University)
  • Published : 2007.11.01
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Abstract

This paper examines some syntactic and semantic properties of the negative construction V+bo NP (VbN) in Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM). It finds out that there are ambiguities between an episode reading and a generic reading in VbN construction which require further investigations and explanations. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to account for the ambiguities lying in the negative VbN construction.

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