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Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures investigates the semantics of the cleft and cleft-related structures in Mandarin, which, over several decades, have presented analytical challenges for semantic theory. The goal of this book, in broad terms, is three-fold: (i) to figure out what clefting adds to the semantics of a sentence; (ii) to set apart the meaning and the discourse function of each type of cleft-related structure; and (iii) to provide a uniform analysis of Mandarin clefts and their related structures. More specifically, it addresses the following questions: (i) what is the semantics of Mandarin clefts? (ii) what do exhaustivity and cont...
Guessie grows up -- The loudspeaker -- The unexpected tide -- Jingjing is born -- The serenity of whiteness -- Four women of forty -- The sun is not out today -- The one and the other -- Lost in the wind and the snow -- Silent commemoration -- The tragedy of the walnut tree.
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Selected, peer reviewed paper from 2010 International Conference on Materials Science and Engineering Science (ICMSES 2010) in December 11-12, Shenzhen, China
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"The authors who have contributed to this book are a group of zhiqing now residing in Houston, Texas."--Preface.
Zhang argues that war in Korea offered Mao yet another opportunity to expand and consolidate his political power at home while at the same time uniting the Chinese proletariat against Yankee imperialism and proving to the international community that China had arrived as a major world power.