{"product_id":"9780367631451-exhaustivity-contrastivity-the-semanti","title":"Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the semantics of the cleft and cleft-related structures in Mandarin, which, over several decades, have presented analytical challenges for semantic theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the semantics of the cleft and cleft-related structures in Mandarin, which, over several decades, have presented analytical challenges for semantic theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe goal of this book, in broad terms, is three-fold: (i) to figure out what clefting adds to the semantics of a sentence; (ii) to set apart the meaning and the discourse function of each type of cleft-related structure; and (iii) to provide a uniform analysis of Mandarin clefts and their related structures. More specifically, it addresses the following questions: (i) what is the semantics of Mandarin clefts? (ii) what do exhaustivity and contrastivity contribute to the meaning of clefts? (iii) what are the semantic (or pragmatic) factors that determine the variation of clefts, related structures, and canonical sentences? and (iv) cross-linguistically speaking, how do Mandarin \u003ci\u003eshi.de \u003c\/i\u003ecleft and its related structures differ from similar constructions such as English \u003cem\u003eit\u003c\/em\u003e-cleft, French \u003ci\u003ec’est\u003c\/i\u003e cleft, and German \u003cem\u003ees-\u003c\/em\u003ecleft?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book will be informative for linguists who are working on cleft constructions and focus on sensitive structures cross-linguistically, and those interested in experimental semantics and pragmatics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40810323148897,"sku":"9780367631451","price":38.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27872638.jpg?v=1760340849","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780367631451-exhaustivity-contrastivity-the-semanti","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}