Pain and Spatial Inclusion: Evidence from Mandarin

Michelle Liu; Colin Klein

doi:10.1093/analys/anz032

Pain and Spatial Inclusion: Evidence from Mandarin

Michelle Liu, Colin Klein

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Abstract

The surface grammar of reports such as ‘I have a pain in my leg’ suggests that pains are objects which are spatially located in parts of the body. We show that the parallel construction is not available in Mandarin. Further, four philosophically important grammatical features of such reports cannot be reproduced. This suggests that arguments and puzzles surrounding such reports may be tracking artefacts of English, rather than philosophically significant features of the world.

Original language	English
Article number	anz032
Pages (from-to)	262-272
Number of pages	11
Journal	Analysis
Volume	80
Issue number	2
Early online date	10 Jul 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anz032
Publication status	Published - Apr 2020

Keywords

pain, Mandarin, pain report, cross-linguistic analysis, location of pain

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© The Author(s) 2019. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Analysis following peer review. The version of record [Michelle Liu, Colin Klein, Pain and spatial inclusion: evidence from Mandarin, Analysis, , anz032, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anz032] is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anz032.
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