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# Poster Presentation for "(Potentially) incomplete sentences in Chinese are imperfective"

Preferred citation (DataCite format):

  Sun, Yenan (2021).
  Poster Presentation for "(Potentially) incomplete sentences in Chinese are imperfective".
  University of Arizona Research Data Repository.
  Poster. https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14447826


Corresponding Author:
  Yenan Sun, University of Chicago, yenansun@uchicago.edu


License:
  CC BY 4.0


DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14447826



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## Summary

This poster was presented on 2021 April 8 - 11 at the [39th meeting of the
West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics](https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/).

  

Provided abstract:

This poster investigates why aspectually zero-marked sentences in Mandarin are
degraded on episodic readings only in certain contexts. I argue for the novel
generalization that the degradedness correlates with whether the event
instantiation is at-issue. I propose that those sentences are imperfectives,
which do not entail but only conversationally implicate the episodic
inferences. When the event instantiation is at-issue, this implicature is
blocked by a contradictory scalar implicature.  



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## Additional Notes

Links:
  - https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/

This presentation is part of the 2021 West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics collection, which is available here:
https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.c.5325401