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Patient-subject constructions in Mandarin Chinese : syntax, semantics, discourse /

"As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: He, Xiaoling (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Colección:Studies in Chinese language and discourse ; v. 1212,
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Previous studies of the patient-subject construction
  • What the PSC is not
  • Syntactic and semantic properties of patient-subject constructions
  • "Inactiveness" and "backgrounding" : PSC in discourse
  • PSC in typological perspective
  • Summary and conclusion.