Browsing Dissertations & Theses by Subject "Mandarin Chinese"
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NON-NATIVE SPEAKER COLLOCATIONS: A CORPUS-DRIVEN CHARACTERIZATION FROM THE WRITING OF NATIVE SPEAKERS OF MANDARIN
(University of Texas Arlington, 1997-12)Non-native speaker difficulty in producing collocations (i.e., domain-specific recurrent word combinations) is widely acknowledged (see, e.g., Bahns 19 9, Channel 1981, Farghal and Obiedat 1995, Gitsaki 1996, and Zughoul ... -
Semantico-pragmatic aspects of the metalinguistic uses of comparatives in Mandarin Chinese and English
(2023-08-23)This dissertation examines a group of Metalinguistic Comparatives (MCs) in Mandarin Chinese, exploring what they suggest about the universality of comparatives. I show that Chinese MCs encode a more fine-grained scalarity ...