An Unbridgeable Gap? The Treatment of Definiteness Restrictions in French and Chinese Presentational Constructions by Ludovica Lena

“…It is shown that most il y a-constructions appear in enumerative contexts (including the sentence-level and inter-clause list-reading, as well as the instantiation of an explicit part-whole relation). Written Chinese uses other strategies to ensure textual coherence and to mark a part-whole relation between the “pivot” and a given referential group (e.g., the lexical verb bāokuò “include”). …”
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