New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax write by Waltraud Paul. This book was released on 2014-12-12. New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mandarin Chinese has become indispensable for crosslinguistic comparison and syntactic theorizing. It is nevertheless still difficult to obtain comprehensive answers to research questions, because Chinese is often presented as an "exotic" language defying the analytical tools standardly used for other languages. This book sets out to demystify Chinese. It places controversial issues in the context of current syntactic theories and offers precise analyses based on a large array of representative data. Although the focus is on Modern Mandarin, earlier stages of Chinese are occasionally referred to in order to highlight striking continuities in its history. VO order is one such constant factor, thus invalidating the idea that Chinese went through a major word order change from OV to VO and back to OV. Another claim often made for Chinese as an isolating language, viz. the existence of an impoverished inventory of parts of speech, is likewise refuted. Other long debated issues addressed here include the relevance of the dichotomy topic vs subject prominence and the role of Chinese as a recurring exception to crosscategorial harmonies posited in typological studies.
Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective
Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective write by Yen-hui Audrey Li. This book was released on 2015. Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective collects twelve new papers that explore the syntax of Chinese in comparison with other languages.
The Cartography of Chinese Syntax
The Cartography of Chinese Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cartography of Chinese Syntax write by Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai. This book was released on 2015-08-12. The Cartography of Chinese Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that is guided by the view that syntactic structures contain grammatical and functional information that is ideal for semantic interpretation - by studying the syntactic structures of a particular language, syntacticians can better understand the semantic issues at play in that language. The chapters in this book map out the "topography" of a variety of constructions in Chinese, specifically information structure, wh-question formation, and peripheral functional elements. The syntactic structure of Chinese makes it an ideal language for this line of research, because functional elements are often spread throughout sentences rather than clumped together as is usually dictated by language-specific morphology. Mapping Chinese syntactic structures therefore offers a window into the origin of heavily "scrambled" constructions often observed in other languages. The book includes a preface that will discusses the goal of cartography and explains how the collection contributes towards our understanding of this approach to syntax. The subsequent seven original articles all contain original syntactic data that is invaluable for future research in cartography, and the collection as a whole paints a broader picture of how the alignment between syntax and semantics works in a principled way.
Chinese Grammar at Work
Chinese Grammar at Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Grammar at Work write by Shuanfan Huang. This book was released on 2013-12-15. Chinese Grammar at Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chinese Grammar at Work adopts a cognitive-functional approach and uses a corpus-based methodology to examine how Chinese syntax emerges from natural discourse context and what the evolving grammar at work looks like. In this volume the author weaves together an array of fresh perspectives on clause structure, constructions, interactional linguistics, cognitive science and complex dynamic systems to construct a grammar of spoken Chinese. The volume contains discussions of a large number of topics: contiguity relation, the roles of repair strategies in the shaping of constituent structure, non-canonical word order constructions, pragmatics of referring expressions, classifier constructions, noun-modifying constructions, verb complementation, ethnotheory of the person and constructions specific to the language of emotion, sequential sensitivity of linguistic materials, meaning potential in interaction, the nature of variability and stability in Chinese syntax from the perspective of complexity theory. The result is a volume that highlights the connections between language structure, situated and embodied nature of cognition and language use, and affords a true entrée to the exciting realm of Chinese grammar.
New Perspectives on Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics
New Perspectives on Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Perspectives on Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics write by Barbara Meisterernst. This book was released on 2018-12-28. New Perspectives on Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents new perspectives on the study of Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics. Based on the international Workshop on Aspect and Modality in Chinese, the book includes the latest research findings in the field to make them available not only to specialists in Classical and Buddhist Chinese, but also to researchers and students of general linguistics and of the universals of language. It also discusses different aspects of the AM (Aspect-Modality) and the TAM (Tense-Aspect-Modality) system of Chinese. It provides a comprehensive overview of both of the universally related systems of aspect and modality. The first part of the book focuses on aspectual features of Chinese; these include basic studies on the syntactic representation of the aspectual structure of the verb phrase in Archaic Chinese, the aspectual function of different object constructions and their development, temporal features of the verb phrase, and the aspectual functions of no minalization processes. The second part includes articles highlighting different aspects of the modal system or the interplay between tense, aspect and modality in Chinese, including a survey on the history of studies on modality in Chinese and the modal and temporal aspectual/markers indicating future meanings, a specialized study on modal deontic verbs in the Buddhist Vinaya texts, the modal function of rhetorical questions in Buddhist Chinese, and a study on the diachronic development of the aspectual and modal system in Chinese.
