LEADER 03413nam 22005655 450 001 9910997190003321 005 20250425130146.0 010 $a981-9629-87-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-96-2987-9 035 $a(CKB)38672119300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-96-2987-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32077075 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32077075 035 $a(EXLCZ)9938672119300041 100 $a20250425d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Aspect-Sensitive Agent Omission in Mandarin /$fby Yan Zhang 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (VII, 148 p. 99 illus.) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in Linguistics,$x2197-0017 311 08$a981-9629-86-1 327 $a Introduction -- Agent omission with -za -- Agent omission with -zhe -- Agent omission with -le -- Agent omission with -guo -- Concluding remarks. 330 $aThis open access book aims to provide an explanatory account for the phenomenon of absent external arguments in Mandarin Chinese. It starts from the observation that although expletivizing an agent is considered impossible cross-linguistically, it is possible in Mandarin. To account for this exceptional behavior, it proposes the M parameter, which suggests that English and Chinese differ in whether the agentive entailments of the root are grammatically codified in selection for the feature [+m]. While the M parameter provides a grammatical basis for when omission of the external argument is possible in a given language, this book argues that expletivization in general is subject to a variant of the Proper Containment Condition (Rappaport Hovav and Levin, 2012), which is dubbed the Aspectual Proper Containment Condition (APCC). The APCC is concerned with the relation between the interval yielded by aspect and the situation in the speaker/hearer?s mental model that obtains during that interval. It requires that the external argument be eliminated if and only if its referent does not participate in the situation in the mental model during that interval. This open access book demonstrates that in the vast majority of cases the APCC correctly predicts agent omission in Mandarin sentences containing one of the four aspectual markers (-zai, -zhe, -le, and -guo), with a few exceptions where additional restrictions are at play. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Linguistics,$x2197-0017 606 $aLinguistics 606 $aLinguistics$xMethodology 606 $aComparative linguistics 606 $aTheoretical Linguistics / Grammar 606 $aResearch Methods in Language and Linguistics 606 $aComparative Linguistics 615 0$aLinguistics. 615 0$aLinguistics$xMethodology. 615 0$aComparative linguistics. 615 14$aTheoretical Linguistics / Grammar. 615 24$aResearch Methods in Language and Linguistics. 615 24$aComparative Linguistics. 676 $a410.1 700 $aZhang$b Yan$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01086917 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910997190003321 996 $aThe Aspect-Sensitive Agent Omission in Mandarin$94375235 997 $aUNINA