Linguistic Analysis Of Meaning And Syntactic Change In The Grammaticalization Of Chinese Prepositions

Author : Yongping Zhu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773414709
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Analysis of Meaning and Syntactic Change in the Grammaticalization of Chinese Prepositions written by Yongping Zhu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic Analysis of Meaning and Syntactic Change in the Grammaticalization of Chinese Prepositions : Charting the Constraints of Locality on Language Development Through Three Millennia of Chinese Documents

Author : Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134307268
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese written by Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study on the phenomenon of 'grammaticalization' and its manifestation in Chinese provides new insights into language change in Chinese and a large number of grammatical topics. Grammaticalization occurs in all of the world's languages. Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu demonstrates general linguistic principles present and active in the phenomenon of grammaticalization whilst also describing the modelling of language in formal theoretical approaches to syntax; so this book fills two major gaps in the current study of linguistics. Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese illuminates how studies of language development and change provide special insights into the understanding of current, synchronic systems of language. Using patters from Chinese, the author establishes cross-linguistic generalizations about language change and grammaticalization. This book should be of great interest to Chinese linguists and readers interested in language change in different languages.

Author : Yongping Zhu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009233475
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student Grammar of Chinese written by Yongping Zhu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for beginning learners of the language, this concise introduction to Chinese grammar assumes only a basic knowledge of Chinese, and no knowledge of grammatical terminology and practices. Comparing Chinese grammar patterns and rules with those of English, and illustrated with a wealth of real-life examples, it allows learners to understand the similarities and differences between the two languages. Using engaging and accessible language, it examines the Chinese sound system, writing system, word formation rules, parts of speech, and simple and complex sentences, as well as explaining special constructions that are typically challenging to second language learners. Each chapter begins with clear learning goals and ends with a useful summary highlighting the chapter's main points. To call attention to specific issues, sidebars are interspersed throughout the text, and exercises within the book and online answer keys help students to reinforce learned material and assist with self-study.

Author : Chaofen Sun
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804724180
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Word-Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese written by Chaofen Sun and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this pioneering work is to make available to Chinese linguists, as well as linguists in general, the results of the most recent research - not only the author's but that of scholars all over the world - on two of the most discussed topics in the history of Chinese: word-order change and grammaticalization.

Author : Janet Zhiqun Xing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammaticalization of Verbs in Mandarin Chinese written by Janet Zhiqun Xing and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yuzhi Shi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027230625
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar written by Yuzhi Shi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates historical motivations for the emergence of the resultative construction in Chinese from the following four aspects: (a) disyllabification, (b)adjacent context, (c) semantic integrity, and (d) frequency of co-occurence of a pair of verb and resultative. The author also addresses a series of grammatical changes and innovations caused by the formation of this resultative construction, such as the development of aspect, mood, verb reduplication, the new predicate structure, the disposal construction, the passive construction, the verb copying construction, and the new topicalization construction, all of which together shape the grammatical system of Modern Chinese. The present analysis raises and discusses a number of theoretical issues that are meaningful to various linguistic disciplines like pragmatics, discourse analysis, grammaticalization, and general historical linguistics.

Author : Yongping Zhu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009233467
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student Grammar of Chinese written by Yongping Zhu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to Chinese grammar that focuses on patterns and rules, and their similarities and differences with English.

Author : Janet Zhiqun Xing
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110253003
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newest Trends in the Study of Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese written by Janet Zhiqun Xing and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammaticalization and lexicalization have been two major issues in the study of diachronic change in the past few decades. Drawing evidence from Western languages, researchers have uncovered a number of characteristics of the process of grammaticalization and lexicalization, as well as the relationship between the two. However, the question remains whether or not those characteristics are applicable to genetically unrelated and typologically different languages, such as Chinese. The contributors of this volume attempt to answer just this question. Based on Chinese historical data from the past three thousand years, five articles in the volume investigate the development of a certain grammatical category: the definite article (M. Fang), modal verbs of volition (A. Peyraube and M. Li), the classifier class (J.Z. Xing), the repeater class (C. Zhang), and the process of lexicalization (X. Dong), while the remaining four articles are case studies of unique grammatical words which have all undergone a complicated process of grammaticalization and some involved lexicalization: the sentence particle ye (Q. Chen), the versatile directional verb lái (C. Liu), the degree adverb hen (M. Liu and C. Chang), and the giving verb gei (F. Tsao). All these studies have identified tendencies of diachronic change in Chinese and some of them have also revealed certain typological characteristics that Chinese has compared to other languages.

Author : Bojiang Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100070758X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese I written by Bojiang Zhang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s. This two-volume book is one of the earliest and most influential works to study the Chinese language using functional grammar. With local Beijing vernacular (Pekingese) as a basis, the information structure and focus structure of the Chinese language are systematically examined. By using written works and recordings from Beijingers, the authors discuss topics such as the relationship between word order and focus, and the distinction between normal focus and contrastive focus. In addition, the authors also subject the reference and grammatical categories of the Chinese language to a functional scrutiny while discussion of word classes and their functions creatively combines modern linguistic theories and traditional Chinese linguistic theories. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese linguistics and linguistics in general.

Author : Fuyi Xing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131751906X
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Chinese Grammar - a Clause-Pivot Approach written by Fuyi Xing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Chinese Grammar provides a comprehensive coverage of Chinese grammar through the clause-pivot theory and the double triangle approach, first proposed by Fuyi Xing in 1996. Translated into English for the first time, the book is widely regarded by linguists as a seminal text, and ground-breaking in linguistics research. The book contains discussion of the topics which are essential to Chinese grammar, from words and phrases, to complex sentences and sentence groups. It addresses such controversial issues as word class identification, the distinction between words and phrases, and between clauses and complex sentences. The book also shows, through a wealth of examples, how the clause-pivot theory and the double triangle approach can be applied productively in grammatical studies. Modern Chinese Grammar: A Clause-Pivot Theoretical Approach is an essential purchase for researchers and graduate students of Chinese grammar and syntax.