The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics.
The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics presents critical overviews of a wide range of major topics in Chinese linguistics, and is the first book to introduce Chinese linguistics from the perspective of modern theoretical and formal linguistics. Offers readers a balanced and accessible introduction to s...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Wiley,
2014.
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Colección: | Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Part I: Syntax, Semantics, and Morphology; 1: Morphology; 1 Introduction; 2 Affixes in Chinese; 2.1 Inflectional affixes; 2.2 Derivational affixes; 2.3 On bound roots and derivational affixes; 3 Compounds in Chinese; 3.1 Types of compounds; 3.2 Heads of compounds; 4 More on V-O compounds: Syntax or morphology?; 4.1 V-O compounds and lexicalization: Huang (1984); 4.2 Challenges from the morphological point of view; 5 Conclusion; References.
- 2: Classifiers1 Introduction; 2 Cognitive-descriptive perspective; 2.1 Function of classifiers; 2.2 Measure words and classifiers; 2.3 Lexical taxonomy and categorization; 2.4 On the meaning of classifiers; 3 Morphology; 4 Acquisition; 5 Conclusion; References; 3: Adverbial Adjuncts in Mandarin Chinese; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Adverbial adjuncts in Mandarin; 1.2 Questions and theories; 2 Pre-verbal adverbials; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 Manner and degree adverbials; 2.3 PP/DP adverbials; 2.4 Subject-oriented adverbials; 2.5 Functional adverbials; 2.6 Speaker-oriented adverbs; 2.7 Alternative orders.
- 3 Post-verbal adverbials3.1 Introduction; 3.2 DES; 3.3 Post-verbal duration and frequency expressions; 4 Two theories; 5 Concluding remarks; References; 4: Light Verbs; 1 Introduction; 2 The light verb syntax of Mandarin Chinese; 2.1 Unselectiveness of subject and object in Mandarin Chinese sentences; 2.2 Parameterization of light verb syntax; 3 Some extensions; 3.1 The affectedness constructions; 3.2 Locative subjects; 4 Alternative theories of light verbs in Chinese; 4.1 Light verbs and aspectual agreement; 4.2 The "no light verb" proposal; 4.3 A Distributed Morphology perspective.
- 5 ConclusionReferences; 5: Topic and Focus; 1 Introduction; 2 Topic; 2.1 Grammatical topic vs. dangling topic; 2.2 Movement and base-generation; 2.3 Hanging topics and left dislocated topics?; 3 Focus and focus constructions; 3.1 Shi ... (de); 3.2 Lian ... dou/ye; 4 Topic, focus, and contrast; 4.1 Left-peripheral contrastive topic; 4.2 Clause-initial lian-DP; 4.3 VP peripheral object; 5 Summary; References; 6: Aspect; 1 Introduction; 2 Viewpoint aspect; 2.1 The syntax of viewpoint aspect; 2.2 Syntax and aspectual meanings; 3 Situation aspect.
- 3.1 Aspectual situation types in Mandarin Chinese3.2 The representation of situation aspect/event structure; 4 Aspect and tense in Chinese; 5 Conclusion; References; 7: Sentence-Final Particles; 1 Introduction; 2 Common properties of Chinese SFPs; 3 SFPs and the structure of the C-domain in Chinese; 4 Issues in the syntactic derivation of SFPs; 4.1 Markers of negation functioning as question particles; 4.2 The origin and grammaticalization of SFPs: a study of Taiwanese kong; 4.3 SFPs and a locality effect: Lin (2010); 4.4 The Dislocation Focus Construction and SFPs: Cheung (2009).