Newest Trends in the Study of Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese - 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 Newest Trends in the Study of Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese write by Janet Zhiqun Xing. This book was released on 2012-04-02. Newest Trends in the Study of Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Grammaticalization and lexicalization have been two major issues in the study of diachronic change in the past few decades. Drawing evidence from Western languages, researchers have uncovered a number of characteristics of the process of grammaticalization and lexicalization, as well as the relationship between the two. However, the question remains whether or not those characteristics are applicable to genetically unrelated and typologically different languages, such as Chinese. The contributors of this volume attempt to answer just this question. Based on Chinese historical data from the past three thousand years, five articles in the volume investigate the development of a certain grammatical category: the definite article (M. Fang), modal verbs of volition (A. Peyraube and M. Li), the classifier class (J.Z. Xing), the repeater class (C. Zhang), and the process of lexicalization (X. Dong), while the remaining four articles are case studies of unique grammatical words which have all undergone a complicated process of grammaticalization and some involved lexicalization: the sentence particle ye (Q. Chen), the versatile directional verb lái (C. Liu), the degree adverb hen (M. Liu and C. Chang), and the giving verb gei (F. Tsao). All these studies have identified tendencies of diachronic change in Chinese and some of them have also revealed certain typological characteristics that Chinese has compared to other languages.
Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese
Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese - 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 Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese write by Alain Peyraube. This book was released on 2021-09-15. Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Series Trends in Chinese Linguistics is initiated by De Gruyter Mouton in cooperation with Commercial Press to make outstanding Chinese papers translated into English available to the international research community. All the papers are selected carefully from the most recent issues of highly-ranked Chinese journals. The series focuses on core areas of Chinese linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. It is a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, and it integrates the research on Sinitic languages and other languages of China in the typological scholarship on language diversity, language convergence and language development. The topical books in the series reflect strong research trends currently relevant to linguists in China.
A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization
A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization - 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 A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization write by Janet Zhiqun Xing. This book was released on 2020-01-20. A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on comparative analyses of diachronic data, the articles in this volume address both theoretical and methodological issues in the study of grammaticalization and lexicalization in both Eastern and Western languages. The central question raised and discussed in this volume is how, if any, typological properties of the two genetically unrelated language families interact with the processes of grammaticalization and lexicalization.
Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia
Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia - 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 Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia write by Walter Bisang. This book was released on 2020-09-21. Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language
The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language - 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 Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language write by Chan Sin-Wai. This book was released on 2016-04-14. The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is an invaluable resource for language learners and linguists of Chinese worldwide, those interested readers of Chinese literature and cultures, and scholars in Chinese studies. Featuring the research on the changing landscape of the Chinese language by a number of eminent academics in the field, this volume will meet the academic, linguistic and pedagogical needs of anyone interested in the Chinese language: from Sinologists to Chinese linguists, as well as teachers and learners of Chinese as a second language. The encyclopedia explores a range of topics: from research on oracle bone and bronze inscriptions, to Chinese language acquisition, to the language of the mass media. This reference offers a guide to shifts over time in thinking about the Chinese language as well as providing an overview of contemporary themes, debates and research interests. The editors and contributors are assisted by an editorial board comprised of the best and most experienced sinologists world-wide. The reference includes an introduction, written by the editor, which places the assembled texts in their historical and intellectual context. The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research resource.
