The Progressive Aspect as a Polarity Item(Non-)Licenser:A Crosslinguistic Study

作     者：XIE Zhiguo XIE Zhiguo

作者机构：Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Ohio State University 

出 版 物：《外国语》 (Journal of Foreign Languages)

年 卷 期：2019年第42卷第3期

页      面：38-46页

核心收录：

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 0501[文学-中国语言文学] 050102[文学-语言学及应用语言学] 03[法学] 030303[法学-人类学] 05[文学] 

基　　金：国家社科基金重大项目“境外汉语语法学史暨数据库建设”(16ZDA209) 

主　　题：progressive wh-indefinites polarity items non-veridicality event realization 

摘      要：By drawing on the most recent literature, I discuss the phenomenon that the progressive aspect in Mandarin Chinese can license *** observation stands in sharp contrast to the fact that the progressive aspect cannot license negative polarity items in such languages as English and Greek.A key difference between the progressive aspect in English/Greek and that in Mandarin Chinese is the former draws on the occurrence of the associated event, and the latter draws on the non-occurrence of the associated *** difference determines whether the progressive in a language is veridical or non-veridical, and whether it can license negative polarity items in that language.