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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shi, Yuzhi, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2002.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 59.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; TABLES; Abbreviations; Stages of Chinese for the sake of grammatical evolution; Transcriptions of the tones in Standard Chinese; Major chronological divisions of Chinese history; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE RESULTATIVE CONSTRUCTION IN MODERN CHINESE; 3 THE SOURCES OF THE RESULTATIVE CONSTRUCTION; 4 DISYLLABIFICATION AND THE FUSION OF VERB AND RESULTATIVE; 5 IDIOMATIZATION, LEXICALIZATION AND FREQUENCY OF COLLOCATION.
  • 6 structure for the fusion of verb and resultative7 semantic relevance; 8 effects on morphology and word formation; 9 effects on syntax; 10 conclusion; references; general index.