Chinese Middle Constructions
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download Chinese Middle Constructions PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Chinese Middle Constructions book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Chinese Middle Constructions
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jiajuan Xiong
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-11-14
Chinese Middle Constructions written by Jiajuan Xiong and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one. This working definition sets “middle construction” apart from “middle voice” in that it can be instantiated by various constructions in Chinese. By scrutinizing these constructions in the framework of Generative Syntax, the book concludes that their formation takes place at the lexical level, without resorting to any syntactic mechanisms and thus that Chinese falls into the category of “lexical middle languages”, which are in contrast to “syntactic middle languages”.
Patient Subject Constructions In Mandarin Chinese
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Xiaoling He
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2019-06-15
Patient Subject Constructions In Mandarin Chinese written by Xiaoling He and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous descriptions which were framed in terms of pre-existing grammatical notions such as ‘topicalization’, ‘passivization’ and ‘ergativization’, this book offers a fresh look at the PSC, in which its syntactic and semantic as well as its discourse functions are examined within the system of major construction-types of the language as a whole. The PSC, being low in transitivity, serves primarily the function of backgrounding in discourse. Typologically, the PSC bears a resemblance to middle constructions in Indo-European and other languages, raising interesting questions about ways to understand congruent and divergent syntactic structures across the world’s languages. This book will be of interest to students of Chinese Linguistics as well as Language Typology.
The Establishment Of Modern Chinese Grammar
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Yuzhi Shi
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2002-01-01
The Establishment Of Modern Chinese Grammar written by Yuzhi Shi and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book investigates historical motivations for the emergence of the resultative construction in Chinese from the following four aspects: (a) disyllabification, (b)adjacent context, (c) semantic integrity, and (d) frequency of co-occurence of a pair of verb and resultative. The author also addresses a series of grammatical changes and innovations caused by the formation of this resultative construction, such as the development of aspect, mood, verb reduplication, the new predicate structure, the disposal construction, the passive construction, the verb copying construction, and the new topicalization construction, all of which together shape the grammatical system of Modern Chinese. The present analysis raises and discusses a number of theoretical issues that are meaningful to various linguistic disciplines like pragmatics, discourse analysis, grammaticalization, and general historical linguistics.
An Exposition Of The Construction And Idioms Of Chinese Sentences As Found In Colloquial Mandarin
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Absalom Sydenstricker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
An Exposition Of The Construction And Idioms Of Chinese Sentences As Found In Colloquial Mandarin written by Absalom Sydenstricker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Chinese language categories.
The Chinese Particle Le
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : M.E. van den Berg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-09-27
The Chinese Particle Le written by M.E. van den Berg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-27 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Ever since the start of Chinese linguistic studies, the description of the Chinese particle LE has remained elusive. The classification has evolved from a listing of sentences and the discussion of contrastive pairs to a more context and discourse-oriented analysis. The development in recent years of inferential models and situation semantics has opened the way for a renewed study of the use of the Chinese particle LE. This book discusses the Chinese data from a 'mental space' perspective and finally reveals the role so-called Chinese 'sentence LE' plays in the construction and maintenance of discourse.
The Formation Of The Resultative Construction And Its Effects On The Establishment Of Modern Chinese Grammar
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Yuzhi Shi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Formation Of The Resultative Construction And Its Effects On The Establishment Of Modern Chinese Grammar written by Yuzhi Shi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
New Approaches To Chinese Word Formation
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jerome Lee Packward
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 1997
New Approaches To Chinese Word Formation written by Jerome Lee Packward and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Foreign Language Study categories.
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
The Development Of Chinese Pivotal Construction
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Rui Peng
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Development Of Chinese Pivotal Construction written by Rui Peng and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Ba And Bei Constructions In Chinese
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Suree Choonharuangdej
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Ba And Bei Constructions In Chinese written by Suree Choonharuangdej and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Word Order Change And Grammaticalization In The History Of Chinese
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Chaofen Sun
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1996
Word Order Change And Grammaticalization In The History Of Chinese written by Chaofen Sun and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The goal of this pioneering work is to make available to Chinese linguists, as well as linguists in general, the results of the most recent research - not only the author's but that of scholars all over the world - on two of the most discussed topics in the history of Chinese: word-order change and grammaticalization.