Pivotal Constructions In Chinese
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| Author | : Rui Peng |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2017-03-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027266050 |
This book presents a detailed analysis of the Chinese pivotal constructions (PVCs) and their diachronic developments from a constructionalist perspective, with the focus on the growth of the constructional hierarchies of these constructions and the changes with respect to both the form and meaning properties over time. The most important enabling factor behind the diachronic developments of the PVCs has been the sanction of the new instances conflicting with the constructions’ specifications. Throughout history the PVCs have grown along the two dimensions, i.e., inclusiveness and multileveledness, leading to a steady increase in the sizes of their constructional hierarchies. The two-dimensional expansion of the PVCs’ constructional hierarchies has been accompanied by the gradual relaxation of the conditions constraining the earliest instances, on multiple schematicity levels. This book will be valuable to scholars working on diachronic construction grammar and language change as well as to those interested in the history of Chinese language.
| Author | : Alwin Wing Ming Li |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Chinese language |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Rui Peng |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 530 |
| Release | : 2006 |
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| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Tat-Man Fok |
| Publisher | : Open Dissertation Press |
| Total Pages | : 76 |
| Release | : 2017-01-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781361083925 |
This dissertation, "A Study of the Pivotal Construction in Modern Standard Chinese" by Tat-man, Fok, 霍達文, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3194877 Subjects: Chinese language - Verb
| Author | : Xiaoshi HU |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2024-05-08 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1040010091 |
Locality in Grammar: From Narrow Syntax to Interfaces investigates the operation of locality conditions in syntax and semantics from a cross-linguistic perspective. It is claimed that there are two different types of locality conditions. One is the Generalized Minimality Condition (GMC), and the other is the Phase Impenetrability Condition (PIC). This book demonstrates that these locality conditions play different roles in different computational components of human language, and, therefore, cannot be unified as one constraint as proposed in the literature. The main idea of the book is that the two different locality conditions are sensitive to the difference between syntactic derivation and semantic interpretation and that of overt and covert syntactic derivations. Further investigation shows a more fine-grained distinction must be made between syntactic computations. It is true that GMC does not constrain overt syntactic derivations and PIC does not play a role in semantic interpretations; however, they both regulate covert syntactic computations. This book will inform postgraduate students and scholars in the field of linguistics.
| Author | : Bingjun Yang |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2022-04-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1316513416 |
As a gateway to central questions in linguistics, non-finiteness is unavoidable in both typological studies and aspects of natural language processing, such as text segmentation and annotation. This study presents a 'process relation framework' to explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for, instances of non-finiteness in clause structure.
| Author | : Sam-po Law |
| Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Communicative disorders |
| ISBN | : 1847691153 |
"Research interest in Chinese language impairments can be traced back to the 1930s. Despite the significant advances made in this field over the past two decades, this body of work has not received the attention it deserves. This book fills a gap in the field and represents the latest research in Chinese language disorders in children and adults. The work presented in this volume addresses theoretical and clinical issues relevant to specific language impairment in children, developmental dyslexia, phonological impairment in children and adults, and acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia. The book will appeal to interdisciplinary researchers from cognitive psychology, linguistics, and neurology with interests in the Chinese language, speech-language therapists working with Chinese-speaking clients, educationists, in particular language teachers of children learning to read and write Chinese, as well as neuroscientists. It will serve as a good reference book for advanced level undergraduate courses or graduate courses in speech/language pathologies and psycholinguistics."--Jacket.
| Author | : Hongnian Zhang |
| Publisher | : Chinese University Press |
| Total Pages | : 542 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9789622015951 |
Fifty lessons examining both structural patterns and morphological features characteristic of Mandarin Chinese. The book describes cultural idiosyncrasies in language use as well as gives discoursal strategies for forming sustained conversations.
| Author | : Charles N. Li |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 722 |
| Release | : 1989-04-20 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780520066106 |
This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of Mandarin Chinese, the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.
| Author | : Xiaoling He |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2019-06-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027262349 |
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.
