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On the Differences Between Dōua and Dōub

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Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2021)

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In the existing literature, many scholars advocate the dichotomous adverb dōu(都). But most of the definitions of the semantic and pragmatic functions of dōua (都a) and dōub(都b) are not rigorous, accurate, and comprehensive. The differences between them have not been comprehensively and systematically sorted out. The academic circles still can not clearly distinguish them. Based on the redefinition of the semantic and pragmatic functions of dōua and dōub in Zhong [6,7,8, 11] this paper attempts to comprehensively reveal the differences between them from multiple levels and dimensions, hoping to reach the dichotomy consensus on the adverb dōu early.

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The study is supported by the Social Science Foundation of Fujian Province (FJ2020B130).

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Zhong, H. (2022). On the Differences Between Dōua and Dōub. In: Dong, M., Gu, Y., Hong, JF. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13249. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_1

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