Semantics of Modal Verbs in Chinese: a Dialectal Perspective

博士 === 國立清華大學 === 語言學研究所 === 95 === The dissertation studies the Semantics of modal verbs in three Chinese dialects: Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese Southern Min and Fuzhounese. Traditionally, it is said that there are two categories for modality: deontics and epistemics. However, since capability mea...

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Main Authors: Yu Szu-I, 于嗣宜
Other Authors: Lien Chin-Fa
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2007
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52434998022435893395