Position syntaxique et valeur discursive : le cas de 'même' en chinois

In this paper I argue that there is no one-to-one relationship between syntactic position and informational value in Mandarin Chinese. To my mind the lian ... ye/dou construction carries new information. Hence Tsao's analysis (1990) of Han ... ye/dou as a topic marker is rejected.Paris Marie-Claude. Position syntaxique et valeur discursive : le cas de 'même' en chinois. In: Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, vol. 23, 1994. pp. 241-253