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- Title
How to Negate without Negators in Chinese: The Lexical Inventory of Indirect or Secondary Negators.
- Authors
CAO Linlin; LIU Danqing
- Abstract
From the perspective of Linguistic Inventory Typology, this paper aims to investigate the words and morphemes in Chinese that have already been conventionalized and recognized as fixed means to express a negative meaning after being frequently used. There are so many such expressions in Chinese that the quantity of them far exceeds the scale of negative lexicon that a language usually has, and some of them have even developed to the extent of being similar to basic negators. However, these indirect negators with distinct implications related to their etymology or the construction in which they evolved, are still somewhat different from the basic negators. In order to properly typologize the negators in Chinese, we refer to the basic negators as Primary Negators and the indirect negators as Secondary Negators. The semantic and pragmatic functions of the latter, as well as the motivations and mechanisms for their negative readings such as metonymy or pragmatic inferencing, are discussed in this paper.
- Subjects
LINGUISTIC typology; INVENTORIES; LEXICON; ETYMOLOGY; METONYMS
- Publication
Studia Orientalia Slovaca, 2020, Vol 19, Issue 2, p63
- ISSN
1336-3786
- Publication type
Article