Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar

Po-Ching, Yip; Rimmington, Don

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“…Similar examples are provided by several previous analyses (e.g. Maury 1992;Ross and Ma 2006;Yip and Rimmington 2006). On the other hand, quite a few instances in the present database lend themselves to alternative or supplementary explanations, as will be discussed in the following sections.…”

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“…The use of the morpheme men as a plural marker with personal pronouns and certain nouns has been described by a number of grammarians (e.g. Chao 1968;DeFrancis 1963;Kubler 1985;Li and Thompson 1981;Ross and Ma 2006;Si 思果 1994;Yip and Rimmington 2006), most of whom have focussed on its use in the written language. There are some minor discrepancies between the various treatments of the morpheme; nevertheless, in general they provide a reasonably unified account of its use.…”

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“…Several constraints are alleged to apply to the use of the plural marker, the most oft stated and unequivocally formulated of these being the exclusion of nonhuman and inanimate nouns from plural inflexion (Chao 1968;DeFrancis 1963;Kubler 1985;Li and Thompson 1981;Ross and Ma 2006;Si 思果 1994;Yip and Rimmington 2006). Significantly more restricting are the assertions that the plural marker can only be attached to polysyllabic, not monosyllabic nouns (Li and Thompson 1981), and even that nouns cannot be inflected for grammatical number if they are already modified by a plural quantifier such as 很多 hěn duō 'many' (cf.…”

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“…This claim is somewhat contentious, as one source expressly sanctions the use of the plural marker in conjunction with the plural demonstrative 那些 nà xiē 'those' (Chao 1968). Much less controversial is the prohibition on the use of the plural marker with an explicitly specified number (Chao 1968;DeFrancis 1963;Kubler 1985;Li and Cheng 李德津, 程美珍 2008;Lin 2001;Norman 1988;Ross and Ma 2006;Yip and Rimmington 2006). Another interesting point of distinction between men and plural morphemes in many other languages is that when used after two coordinated nouns in the structure N1-N2-men it is taken to apply to both the preceding nouns.…”

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Constraints on the use of the plural morpheme men in spoken Mandarin

Cook

2019

Lingua Sinica

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This study returns to the oft-debated question of grammatical number and plurality in Modern Standard Chinese and attempts to shed new light on the constraints operating on the plural marker men by analysing its use in a corpus of half a million characters of spoken data. Data from the present research indicate that the plural morpheme men is less sensitive than previously assumed to a number of constraints outlined in the standard literature, including structural constraints involving NPs with quantifiers and explicit number expressions. At the same time, it is also more sensitive to a range of other factors that have hitherto been largely overlooked, including parallelism, the length of NP modifiers and lexical diffusion. The findings also suggest that the morpheme men is not used only to indicate plurality and collectivity but may have a number of other roles as well, such as functioning like a diminutive suffix and contributing to the organization of discourse and information structure.

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Constraints on the use of the plural morpheme men in spoken Mandarin

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2019

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“…Thus, it could be argued that there are three question structures that are relevant to the present study. Examples of each are provided in (22) to (24): Nĭ shì chīsù de ba2SG be vegetarian PART Q‘You are a vegetarian, aren't you?’ (Po‐Ching and Rimmington : 349) Nĭ hěn xiăng jiā, shì ma?2SG very homesick be Q‘You are homesick, aren't you?’ (Hung‐nin et al : 112) Zhè tíao qúnzi tài dà, shì bu shì?this item skirt too big be NEG be‘This skirt is too big, isn't it?’ (Hung‐nin, et al 1994: 112) …”

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The invariant tag isn't it in Asian Englishes

Parviainen

2015

World Englishes

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The aim of this paper is to conduct a quantitative corpus‐based analysis in order to detect how frequently the invariant tag isn't it is used in the English varieties of India, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines. American and British English were added to the study for point of reference. The data were obtained from the International Corpus of English for all other varieties except for spoken American English, for which the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English was used. The results indicate that the use of isn't it as an invariant tag appears almost solely in spoken language and the highest frequencies can be found in Indian English, followed by Singaporean English, Hong Kong English and Philippine English.

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Performing microcelebrity: Analyzing Papi Jiang's online persona through stance and style

Weninger

2022

Lang. Soc.

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Contemporary digital media is characterized by a cultural logic of participation that encourages sharing, confession, phatic communication, and an emphasis on the visual. In this techno-cultural milieu, self-presentation has become a key mode of communication, and has enabled ordinary individuals to attain a measure of celebrity status. A key component of being a microcelebrity entails developing a consistent persona that is recognizable and unique. How such persona can be studied from the sociolinguistic perspective of stance and style is the focus of this article. We combined corpus linguistic and qualitative discourse analytic methods to examine a small corpus of videos produced by Chinese online celebrity, Papi Jiang. The article presents key lexico-grammatical, discourse-level, and non-linguistic resources that are analyzed as stance markers that together contribute to Papi's intense, critical-satirical performative style. The significance of the findings is discussed in relation to performance, performativity, and critique in digital media. (Persona, microcelebrity, style, performance, stance)*

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Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar

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Constraints on the use of the plural morpheme men in spoken Mandarin

Constraints on the use of the plural morpheme men in spoken Mandarin

The invariant tag isn't it in Asian Englishes

Performing microcelebrity: Analyzing Papi Jiang's online persona through stance and style

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