Nouns and Verbs in Chinese II

ISBN-13: 9781032693774 / Twarda / 2024 / 208 str.

Shen Jiaxuan

Opis

As the second volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book investigates a wide range of linguistic phenomena in Chinese and other languages to substantiate the verbs-as-nouns theory proposed by the author.

Spis treści

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.