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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Paul, Waltraud (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 271.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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!