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The Distribution and Feature Checking of Interrogative Sentences in Tao Te Ching

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Abstract

An exhaustive description of interrogative sentences in the conventional version, the silk manuscripts and the bamboo slips of Tao Te Ching is done by qualitative approach. It is feasible to apply the Interrogative Feature Attraction Hypothesis to the explanation of the syntactic features of wh-questions in Tao Te Ching, and thus it is of great theoretical significance to the study of linguistic universality.

DOI 10.11648/j.ijll.20160406.15
Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 4, Issue 6, November 2016)
Page(s) 230-236
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Keywords

Tao Te Ching,Interrogative Sentences,Syntactic Features

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