Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese: A formal view

ISBN-13: 9780415336031 / Twarda / 2004 / 336 str.

Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction and overview 2. The classifier ge: movement and reanalysis 3. Relative clause de: directionality, clausal raising and sentence-final particles 4. De in focus sentences: from D to T 5. Resultative constructions: directionality and reanalysis 6. Verbal -le: aspect and tense 7. Post-word Bibliography Index

O autorze

Wu, Xiu-Zhi Zoe