Ricerca: Investigating strategies for ambiguity resolution: A corpus-based study on the negative forms of the Chinese necessity modal 应该 yīnggāi (Provvisorio)
Curriculum Asia orientale
Abstract
This research aims to identify, through a corpus-based study, the factors that contribute to disambiguate the modal readings acquired by the negative forms of the polysemous Chinese modal 应该 yīnggāi ‘should’.
The study is primarily intended to prove whether the contrast between external and internal negation (Neg+Mod vs Mod+Neg) effectively triggers a shift from deontic to epistemic necessity, as hypothesized by Tsang (1981), and to test the readings allowed by the interplay with the double negation (Neg+Mod+Neg). However, due attention will be attached to other syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors, in order to highlight all the environments which can provide an unambiguous reading for the negative forms of 应该 yīnggāi.
Interessi di ricerca: semantica delle espressioni modali in Cinese Moderno Standard; l'interazione fra verbi modali e negazione in Cinese Moderno Standard.
Curriculum vitae
11/2025-presente: Dottoranda in Civiltà dell’Asia e dell’Africa presso l’Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali, Sapienza Università di Roma
09/2021 - 03/2024: Laurea Magistrale in Lingue e Civiltà dell’Asia e dell’Africa Mediterranea, curriculum Cina, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia.
02/2023 – 06/2023: Semestre di mobilità con il programma “Overseas”, Capital Normal University (Pechino).
09/2017- 06/2021: Laurea Triennale in Lingue, Culture e Società dell’Asia e dell’Africa Mediterranea, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (curriculum Cina) e Bachelor’s Degree in Chinese Language, Capital Normal University di Pechino (doppio titolo).