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The Hybrid Content of the Scalar Focus Modifier Kua35 in the Southwest Mandarin Chinese

Authors
Shiyin Tang1, *
1Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
*Corresponding author. Email: Shiyin_tang@126.com
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Shiyin Tang
Available Online 30 December 2022.
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10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_169How to use a DOI?
Keywords
kua35; the Qiannan dialect; scalar focus modifier; hybrid content
Abstract

This paper is intended to investigate the semantics of kua35 ‘(lit.) tasteless’ in the Qiannan dialect, a language spoken in the south of Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou Province of China. By drawing on the spirit of a bi-dimensional semantics framework, I propose that the adverbial kua35 is a scalar focus modifier with hybrid content. On the one hand, kua35 evokes a scale of a set of taste-related alternatives, ranking the alternatives of the set on the scale and singling out an alternative with maximum quantity. On the other hand, kua35 implies that the focused element is the most undesirable one under discussion. The implications of the present study are twofold: firstly, it is the first time that kua35 in the Qiannan dialect has been concerned in the spirit of generative linguistics; secondly, the investigation of kua35 provides empirical evidence for exploring the connection between at-issue meaning and non-at-issue meaning.

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Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
30 December 2022
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10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_169
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2352-5398
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