"Meiyou"is an important negative marker in Chinese. This thesis explores the semantic features of"meiyou"in two basic negative structures, such as"meiyou + NP"and"meiyou + VP"an..."Meiyou"is an important negative marker in Chinese. This thesis explores the semantic features of"meiyou"in two basic negative structures, such as"meiyou + NP"and"meiyou + VP"and the concurrence of"meiyou"with aspect markers,such as" zhe","le","guo". This thesis insists that"meiyou + NP"and"meiyou + VP"have the same semantic structure,namely, the negative marker"meiyou"negates discrete events in both structures.展开更多
文摘"Meiyou"is an important negative marker in Chinese. This thesis explores the semantic features of"meiyou"in two basic negative structures, such as"meiyou + NP"and"meiyou + VP"and the concurrence of"meiyou"with aspect markers,such as" zhe","le","guo". This thesis insists that"meiyou + NP"and"meiyou + VP"have the same semantic structure,namely, the negative marker"meiyou"negates discrete events in both structures.