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New Perspectives on Chinese Formal Semantics book cover

1st Edition

New Perspectives on Chinese Formal Semantics

Edited By Zhuosi Luo, Haoze Li Copyright 2027
408 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume brings together recent work by a new generation of scholars on the formal semantic and pragmatic analysis of Chinese languages. Rather than presenting a comprehensive handbook, the volume offers a curated snapshot of an expanding field, showing how Chinese data can illuminate central questions in semantic theory. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, including quantification,... Read more

1. The formal semantics of Chinese: Emerging perspectives

Zhuosi Luo and Haoze Li

Section I Quantification

2. Quantification structure in Chinese

Yuli Feng

3. Classifiers

Qi Hao

4. Mandarin ‘dou’ and its pragmatic nature

Mingming Liu

Section II Verbal meanings

5. Telicity of Mandarin VPs: RVCs and event boundaries

Anqi Zhang

6. Incompleteness and contextual information

Yenan Sun

7. A partial analysis for temporal reference in Mandarin complement clauses

Yuyin He

8. Modal concord

Yanyan Cui

9. Causation and contextual argument interpretation

Zhuosi Luo

Section III Degree

10. Degrees as kinds and the individuating-measure ambiguity of container classifiers

Yi-Hsun Chen

11. Degree QUDs and focus-sensitive scalar particles

Linmin Zhang

Section IV Sentence types

12. Wh-constructions and discourse

Haoze Li

13. Question Under Discussion and Question Bias

Shumian Ye

14. Mandarin cleft constructions

Ying Liu

15. Final particles

Jess H.K. Law

Biography

Zhuosi Luo (罗卓思) is an assistant professor and researcher at the National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education and the National Research Centre for State Language Capacity at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Her research focuses on semantics, syntax-semantics interface, as well as language and cognition, with a particular emphasis on the verbal and adjectival domains.

Haoze Li (李昊泽) is an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. His research focuses on semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces. By combining formal modeling with experimental methods, he addresses fundamental questions about the relationship between linguistic form and meaning in natural languages, with a particular focus on Sinitic languages.

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