The establishment of modern Chinese grammar : the formation of the resultative construction and its effects /
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 address...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2002.
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Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 59. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 topic. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-256) and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027283030 9027283036 1283222396 9781283222396 |
ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |