Double Restrictive Focus Expressions in Japanese and Chinese : Compared with Simple Restrictive Focus Expressions

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  • 日中両言語における限定とりたての二重表現 : 単純表現との比較から
  • ニッチュウ リョウ ゲンゴ ニ オケル ゲンテイトリタテ ノ ニジュウ ヒョウゲン : タンジュン ヒョウゲン ト ノ ヒカク カラ

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This article offers a contrastive analysis on double restrictive focus expressions in Japanese and Chinese, a sentence containing two restrictive focus elements. Double restrictive focus expressions are used far more frequently in Japanese than in Chinese. Compared with simple focus expressions, the semantic function of double focus expressions of Japanese is intensification and disambiguation. Contrastingly, the double focus expressions of Chinese have only the function of intensification.

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