Linguistic Analysis Of Meaning And Syntactic Change In The Grammaticalization Of Chinese Prepositions
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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 | : Yongping Zhu |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2023-04-30 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1009233475 |
Written for beginning learners of the language, this concise introduction to Chinese grammar assumes only a basic knowledge of Chinese, and no knowledge of grammatical terminology and practices. Comparing Chinese grammar patterns and rules with those of English, and illustrated with a wealth of real-life examples, it allows learners to understand the similarities and differences between the two languages. Using engaging and accessible language, it examines the Chinese sound system, writing system, word formation rules, parts of speech, and simple and complex sentences, as well as explaining special constructions that are typically challenging to second language learners. Each chapter begins with clear learning goals and ends with a useful summary highlighting the chapter's main points. To call attention to specific issues, sidebars are interspersed throughout the text, and exercises within the book and online answer keys help students to reinforce learned material and assist with self-study.
Author | : Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134307276 |
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.
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 | : 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.
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 | : Montserrat Batllori |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2005-08-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191534064 |
In this outstanding collection of new work the methods and theories of formal syntax are focussed on grammatical variation and change. The editors open the volume with an extensive and accessible introduction to the ideas and techniques deployed in the book and the phenomena and issues on which they are brought to bear. Seventeen chapters follow, divided into two parts, the first concerned with grammaticalization and the second with parametric variation. These show what the application of contemporary theories of syntax and language variation can reveal about syntactic change and variation and the processes of parametric change which lie behind them. They also demonstrate the value of testing and constructing synchronic theories on the basis of historical data. The analyses range over many languages and language families, including Germanic, Romance, Greek, and Chinese. This book will interest scholars and students of grammatical change and theory at graduate level and above.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Chinese language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Zhuo Jing-Schmidt |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027271410 |
Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics showcases recent trends in the co-development of theory and empiricism in Chinese linguistics. The volume tackles a wide range of theoretical and empirical problems in multiple subfields including sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, lexical semantics, pragmatics, phonetics and phonology, corpus linguistics, and Chinese second language acquisition. The contributions do not fall neatly into two sections traditionally labeled “theoretical” and “empirical”. Rather, theoretical discussions are buttressed by empirical evidence, and empirical analyses lead to theoretical generalizations. Furthermore, the volume transcends the functional-formal division, showing that empiricism not only empowers functional-typological and sociolinguistic research, but can also have a place in formally oriented linguistic analysis.