Hi everybody,
My name is Marita and I am a Ph.D student at the Department of East Asian Languages at Lund University, Sweden. I'm doing research on the marker LE in Mandarin Chinese. It has been described as a perfective/perfect/tense/anteriority/modal/current relevance etc marker, actually as two distinct markers, because it can appear in two positions in the sentence, either directly after the verb or in the end of the sentence. I am doing a unified semantic-pragmatic analysis of the marker. I have found RT to be a very attractive theory for my work since I believe LE to be a context-dependent marker that can contribute to temporal/aspectual and modal distinctions in the sentence. In my work I show that different readings of sentences with LE is caused to a large extent by conceptual and contextual information and only to a marginal extent by syntactic position. I'm very interested in all comments on this kind of work, or to share experiences with others doing similar type of research.
Best regards,
Marita Ljungqvist Arin
Department of East Asian Languages
Lund University
Sweden
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