Nouns and Verbs in Chinese

ISBN-13: 9781032693842 / Mixed media product / 2024 / 520 str.

Shen Jiaxuan

Opis

This two-volume set revisits the nature of nouns and verbs and linguistic categories in Chinese to unravel the different relationships between nouns and verbs in Chinese, English and other languages.

Spis treści

Volume 1:  1. Introduction: Between Discarding and Recovering  2. Breaking with Earlier Assumptions  3. The Problems  4. The Verbs-as-Nouns Framework in Chinese  5. Realizational Relations and Constitutive Relations  6. The Asymmetry Between Nouns and Verbs  7. The Referentiality of Predicates  Volume 2:  1. The problematic status of complements and adverbials  2. Chinese, Tongan, and Latin  3. Shì ‘be’ and yǒu ‘have/there be’  4. The status and functions of the monosyllabic-disyllabic opposition  5. Markedness reversal and the inclusion pattern  6. Concluding remarks: Destruction and construction in grammatical studies

O autorze

Shen Jiaxuan is Professor of Linguistics at Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His main research interests include contrastive studies between Chinese and English and grammatical theories.