A pragmatic explanation of the mei-dou co-occurrence in Mandarin.
Liu M.
Liu M.
J East Asian Ling. 2021;30(3):277-316. doi: 10.1007/s10831-021-09227-x. Epub 2021 Nov 22.
J East Asian Ling. 2021.
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This motivates the widely accepted idea from Lin (Nat Lang Semant 6:201-243, 1998) that Mandarin does not have genuine distributive universal quantifiers, and mei-NPs are disguised plural definites, which thus need dou-a distributive operator (or an adverbial universal quantifier …
This motivates the widely accepted idea from Lin (Nat Lang Semant 6:201-243, 1998) that Mandarin does not have genuine distributive universa …