Grammaticalization And Language Change In Chinese
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Author | : Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2013-09-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780415864558 |
This innovative study on the phenomenon of 'grammaticalization' and its manifestation in Chinese provides new insights into language change in Chinese and a large number of grammatical topics. Grammaticalization occurs in all of the world's languages. Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu demonstrates general linguistic principles present and active in the phenomenon of grammaticalization whilst also describing the modelling of language in formal theoretical approaches to syntax; so this book fills two major gaps in the current study of linguistics. Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese illuminates how studies of language development and change provide special insights into the understanding of current, synchronic systems of language. Using patters from Chinese, the author establishes cross-linguistic generalizations about language change and grammaticalization. This book should be of great interest to Chinese linguists and readers interested in language change in different languages.
Author | : Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134307268 |
This innovative study on the phenomenon of 'grammaticalization' and its manifestation in Chinese provides new insights into language change in Chinese and a large number of grammatical topics. Grammaticalization occurs in all of the world's languages. Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu demonstrates general linguistic principles present and active in the phenomenon of grammaticalization whilst also describing the modelling of language in formal theoretical approaches to syntax; so this book fills two major gaps in the current study of linguistics. Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese illuminates how studies of language development and change provide special insights into the understanding of current, synchronic systems of language. Using patters from Chinese, the author establishes cross-linguistic generalizations about language change and grammaticalization. This book should be of great interest to Chinese linguists and readers interested in language change in different languages.
Author | : Chaofen Sun |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780804724180 |
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.
Author | : Janet Zhiqun Xing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Chinese language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Janet Zhiqun Xing |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2012-04-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110253003 |
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.
Author | : Guangshun Cao |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2019-08-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110610248 |
The book sheds light on the fascinating evolution of contact-induced grammatical features in Chinese syntax. For more than two thousand years, Chinese has been in large scale language contact with languages such as Sanskrit, Mongolian, and Manchurian. Originally published in Chinese in renowned academic journals, the contributions are made available for the first time to the English speaking world.
Author | : Yang Huang |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2023-05-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1793630100 |
Based on a case study of the evolution of “finish” morphemes in Yue and Zhuang Tai-Kadai, this book examines how an internal factor (grammaticalization) and an external factor (language contact) interacted to produce the polyfunctionality of the specific “finish” morphemes in the languages of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Southern China. Arguing that the Central Southern Guangxi Region is a micro-linguistic area, Huang also introduces five unique areal features shared by many of its languages.
Author | : Yongping Zhu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Chinese language |
ISBN | : 9780773414709 |
Linguistic Analysis of Meaning and Syntactic Change in the Grammaticalization of Chinese Prepositions : Charting the Constraints of Locality on Language Development Through Three Millennia of Chinese Documents
Author | : Alain Peyraube |
Publisher | : De Gruyter Mouton |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783110714869 |
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.
Author | : Yuzhi Shi |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027230621 |
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.