The Evolution of Chinese Grammar

ISBN-13: 9781108844055 / Twarda / 2023 / 500 str.

Yuzhi (National University of Singapore) Shi

Opis

A study of the motivations, mechanisms and regularities in the evolutionary history of Chinese grammar over the past three millennia.

Spis treści

Conventions used in the examples; Abbreviations and symbols; 1. Some preliminaries; 2. Copular word and construction; 3. Focus and wh-word; 4. Serial verb construction; 5. Disyllabification; 6. Resultative construction; 7. Information structure; 8. Passive construction; 9. Disposal construction; 10. Verb copying and reduplication; 11. Comparative construction; 12. Ditransitive construction; Aspect and tense; 14. Negotiation; 15. Boundedness of predicate; 16. Classifier; 17. Demonstratives from classifiers; 18. Distal demonstratives from phonological derivation; 19. Pronouns, plurals and diminutives; 20. Structural particles; 21. Word order and relative clause; 22. Conclusions.