New perspectives on Chinese syntax /
"In the last thirty years, Mandarin Chinese has been playing an increasingly important role in general linguistics and has become a 'must' for everyone interested in crosslinguistic comparison and syntactic theorizing. The book aims at demystifying Chinese. It places controversial iss...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2015]
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Collection: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
271. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. SVO forever!
- 3. Prepositions as adpositions, not V/P hybrids
- 4. Postpositions: double trouble
- 5. Adjectives: another neglected category: which turns out to be two
- 6. The syntax and semantics of the sentence periphery (part I): what the topic is (not) about
- 7. The syntax and semantics of the sentence periphery (part II): why particles are not particular
- 8. Chinese from a typological point of view: long live disharmony!