On the syntax of Mandarin sentence-final particles: a neo-performative analysis

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dc.contributor.authorXu, Kang
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-18T16:33:43Z
dc.date.available2022-03-18T16:33:43Z
dc.date.issued2022-03
dc.description.abstractMandarin sentence-final particles have been analyzed uniformly as sentence-final complementizers by a group of researchers (Paul & Pan, 2017; Pan, 2019). However, in the present paper, I draw evidence from co-occurring sentence-final particles to demonstrate that in Mandarin, sentence-final particles must co-occur in a fixed order. This observation casts doubts on the assumption that these particles are complementizers because treating them as complementizers does not explain why they appear in a fixed order. Following Wiltschko (2020), I propose that these particles belong to different categories of the interactional structure. I focus my discussion on three representative particles, namely, ne 呢 , me 么 and ha 哈 . An analysis that assumes an interactional structure above CP can account for some poorly understood co-occurrence restrictions among these particles.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2371-2643
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/114492
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39652
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.subjectMandarin sentence-final particlesen_US
dc.subjectinteractional structureen_US
dc.titleOn the syntax of Mandarin sentence-final particles: a neo-performative analysisen_US
dc.typeworking paperen_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrueen_US
ucalgary.scholar.levelGraduateen_US
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