Yuzhi Shi (National University of Singapore)

The Evolution of Chinese Grammar

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Illustrated with a wide range of examples from every stage of the development of the language, this pioneering book provides an evolutionary perspective on the history of Chinese grammar. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students of Asian linguistics, historical linguistics and syntactic theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1062g
• ISBN-13: 9781108844055
• ISBN-10: 1108844057
• Artikelnr.: 66739548

Autorenporträt

Yuzhi Shi is Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He obtained an MA from the University of California, San Diego, in 1995 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, in 1999. His major publications include Motivations and Mechanisms of Grammaticalization in Chinese (Peking University Press, 2006), Chinese Grammar (The Commercial Press in Peking, 2010) and The Historical Morpho-Syntax of Chinese, which won the Prize of China Excellent Publications in 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

Conventions used in the examples
Abbreviations and symbols
1. Some preliminaries
2. Copular word and construction
3. Focus and wh-word
4. Serial verb construction
5. Disyllabification
6. Resultative construction
7. Information structure
8. Passive construction
9. Disposal construction
10. Verb copying and reduplication
11. Comparative construction
12. Ditransitive construction
Aspect and tense
14. Negotiation
15. Boundedness of predicate
16. Classifier
17. Demonstratives from classifiers
18. Distal demonstratives from phonological derivation
19. Pronouns, plurals and diminutives
20. Structural particles
21. Word order and relative clause
22. Conclusions.