Browsing Ph.D. - East Asian Languages and Literatures (Chinese) by Author "Tian, Yuan"

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Ambiguities of the evaluative adverb Jiu

Tian, Yuan (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003-12)

This dissertation is based on research that investigates uses of the evaluative adverb jiu in evaluating time and quantity. Uses of jiu in Beijing Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin are compared and contrasted. In Beijing ...