Although the particle ne has been studied by many linguists, including Chao (1968) and Li & Thompson (1981), only part of its contextual uses has been examined and hasty conclusions drawn. In this paper, data have been collected from Mandarin instructors, visiting scholars from China, novels and other texts published in either Taiwan or Mainland. Thus a wide range of contextual uses of ne has been collected, analysed, and the general/invariant meaning of this form has been extracted. The general/invariant meaning is then put in opposition to that of the zero sign (0) in order to determine the relational invariant meaning of this particle. My conclusion is that ne carries the relational invariant meaning [+ constrastiveness] while the zero s...
The discourse functions of three Taiwanese particles la, hon and ne are analyzed. These utterance pa...
[[abstract]]In the past, most studies which consider Mandarin utterance-final particle –ne merely in...
The linguist James Huang categorized languages into “cool” languages (i.e., languages that rely more...
Although the particle ne has been studied by many linguists, including Chao (1968) and Li & Thompson...
This paper proposes that, in statements, the discourse function of the Chinese particle NE is hearer...
This contribution is a qualitative analysis of the modal particle ne 呢 used as a “discourse marker” ...
This paper presents a unified account of the discourse function of the Chinese particle ne based on ...
En mandarin, les déterminants du nom, démonstratifs et numéraux, sont en général antéposés au nom. L...
This thesis presents a semantic and pragmatic inquiry into 'A', 'BA', 'MA', and 'NE', the four modal...
In the field of Tense and Aspect, semantic categories such as perfectivity and imperfectivity have b...
The semantics of the particle le in Mandarin Chinese has been hotly debated in both Chinese and non-...
“Non-interrogative constituent + particle ne?” is a form of “thematic question”, where the particle ...
In this paper, I propose a relevance-theoretic account of the particles le, guo and zhe in Mandarin ...
The particle le is one of the more frequently used and discussed, but least understood, elements in ...
Abstract: This paper aims to explain the different interpretations of the sentential particle le wit...
The discourse functions of three Taiwanese particles la, hon and ne are analyzed. These utterance pa...
[[abstract]]In the past, most studies which consider Mandarin utterance-final particle –ne merely in...
The linguist James Huang categorized languages into “cool” languages (i.e., languages that rely more...
Although the particle ne has been studied by many linguists, including Chao (1968) and Li & Thompson...
This paper proposes that, in statements, the discourse function of the Chinese particle NE is hearer...
This contribution is a qualitative analysis of the modal particle ne 呢 used as a “discourse marker” ...
This paper presents a unified account of the discourse function of the Chinese particle ne based on ...
En mandarin, les déterminants du nom, démonstratifs et numéraux, sont en général antéposés au nom. L...
This thesis presents a semantic and pragmatic inquiry into 'A', 'BA', 'MA', and 'NE', the four modal...
In the field of Tense and Aspect, semantic categories such as perfectivity and imperfectivity have b...
The semantics of the particle le in Mandarin Chinese has been hotly debated in both Chinese and non-...
“Non-interrogative constituent + particle ne?” is a form of “thematic question”, where the particle ...
In this paper, I propose a relevance-theoretic account of the particles le, guo and zhe in Mandarin ...
The particle le is one of the more frequently used and discussed, but least understood, elements in ...
Abstract: This paper aims to explain the different interpretations of the sentential particle le wit...
The discourse functions of three Taiwanese particles la, hon and ne are analyzed. These utterance pa...
[[abstract]]In the past, most studies which consider Mandarin utterance-final particle –ne merely in...
The linguist James Huang categorized languages into “cool” languages (i.e., languages that rely more...