Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese I: Information Structure and Word Ordering Selection

ISBN-13: 9781032236971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 268 str.

Bojiang Zhang; Mei Fang

Opis

This book has become influential in its exposition of how to use functional grammar to study the Chinese language. Using local Beijing vernacular as a basis, the information structure and focus structure of the Chinese language are systematically examined while its reference and grammatical categories are subjected to critical analysis.

Spis treści

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Introduction: corpus and approach

PART I

Information structure

1 Thematic structure of spoken Pekingese

2 Thematic structure in narration: sentence-middle modal particles

3 Thematic structure in conversation: an analysis of translocation

PART II

Focus structure

4 Word order: object vs. directional complement

5 Word order: object vs. verbal classifier

6 Means for contrastive focus representation

PART III

Backgrounding constructions

7 A transitivity interpretation of serial verb constructions in Chinese

8 Imperfective clause "V¿"

9 Zero cataphora of clause subject

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Bojiang Zhang is a professor from the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of Literary Review(«¿¿¿¿»). He is also a professor at University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Fudan University and Renmin University of China. He has been working on syntactic theory, functional grammar and discourse analysis of Chinese.

Mei Fang is a professor from the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is currently the Deputy Editor-in-chief of Studies of the Chinese Language ( «¿¿¿¿») and the vice president of Chinese Language Society. She has been working on Chinese grammar and discourse analysis with the functional approach, focusing on the emergent nature of grammatical patterns, pragmaticalization, and grammar in interaction.