A constraint-based analysis of A-NOT-A questions in Mandarin Chinese

• Main Authors: Wang, Wenjie, Song, Sanghoun, Bond, Francis
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80391; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40499; http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/HPSG/2015/
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The A-NOT-A structure is one way to express polar questions in Mandarin Chinese. The present study provides a constraint-based analysis of A-NOT-A questions in Mandarin Chinese within the framework of HPSG (Pollard & Sag, 1994) and MRS (Copestake et al., 2005). We propose two possible approaches...