Semantics of Chinese Questions: An Interface Approach

Hongyuan Dong's Semantics of Chinese Questions: An Interface Approach looks to study the syntax, semantics, and phonology of questions and proposes a phonological scope-marking strategy in Chinese questions, based upon experimental data. It also incorporates historical linguistic data regarding the grammaticalization of sentence-final particles such as –ne and –ma to study the formal diachronic semantics of questions.