Newest Trends in the Study of Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese

ISBN-13: 9783110252996 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 312 str.

Janet Zhiqun Xing

Opis

Based on Chinese historical data collected over the past three thousand years, the articles in the volume investigate the development of new grammatical categories and the process of lexicalization and grammaticalization of unique grammatical words. All these studies have identified tendencies of diachronic change in Chinese or typological characteristics that Chinese has compared to other languages.

Recenzje

"Nonetheless, all of the articles are important contributions to the corpus of
work on diachronic change in Chinese. They expand the understanding of Western scholars interested in the history of the Chinese language. The results of the studies are useful for cross-linguistic research in various domains, such
as aspectual typology, typology of poly-predicative constructions, modal
verbs, nominal classifiers, etc. They will also be very useful for teaching
the Chinese language and its theory and history, since it contains interesting
data on new tendencies in language use not yet reflected in textbooks and
normative grammars."
Ksenia V. Antonyan in: Linguist List 23.5311

O autorze

Janet Zhiqun Xing, Western Washington University, USA.