This section concerns the interaction between 'one'-phrases as minimizers and the two types of negation divided by existentiality: existential negative predicate 沒有 méiyǒu and non-existential 不 bù and negator 沒 méi.
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any non-existential threats that can mobilize an economy the way we geared up to fight the Axis.I'm not sure about non-existential threats, but if we're willing to include existential ones, climate change sure seems to fit the bill.
His writing specializes in the exploration of the minor emotions often slighted by "serious" writers: contentment rather than elation, glumness rather than despair, horniness instead of passion, and, everywhere, a non-existential, completely ordinary loneliness.
The connection became statistically prominent in Early Mandarin Chinese when the negators were non-existential.
The discussion of this section reveals that minimizers tend to occur in OV under non-existential negation.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 'One'-phrases as minimizers in VO and OV under non-existential negation.
The analysis shows that the minimizers favor OV under non-existential negation, while they prefer VO under existential negation.
Section 3 provides an overview of the synchronic distribution of 'one'-phrases as minimizers under non-existential negation in Modern Mandarin.
The minimizers with non-existential negation are associated with particular constructions in both VO and OV for emphatic purpose, resulting in the skewed distribution.
The tool devised by the researcher was a questionnaire based on the four variables of mindfulness, non-existential-resistance-to-life, sociability and search-for-meaning-in-life.
For each of the non-existential negators 不 bù and 沒 méi, the two combinations of NEG-V… 'one' and 'one'…NEG-V are collected from the corpus.
