Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004482739
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9789004101463
Series Statement:
Sinica Leidensia 32
Content:
Clause Combination in Chinese is an abundantly documented study of composite sentences in Modern Chinese, their semantic properties and syntactic behaviour. It discusses the extent of language variation, the relation between synchrony and diachrony, the nature of grammaticalization, generality and gradience, and the non-uniqueness of syntactic analysis. The first part provides a new categorization of clause combinations and clause connectives. It introduces a class of connectives often combining units larger than the sentence. It also discusses the frequent non-use of clause connectives in Chinese composite sentences. The second part contains case studies of composite sentences with unusual semantic properties, among them a hitherto unrecognized pattern with no English counterpart: adverbial clauses expressing necessity. The book should be of interest to all students of Chinese linguistics and to general linguists concerned with sentence complexity
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Preliminary Material /
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Acknowledgements /
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Abbreviations /
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Introduction /
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Chapter One Monocentric and Polycentric Sentences /
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Chapter Two Classification of Clause Connectives /
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Chapter Three Text-Organizing Connectives /
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Chapter Four Non-Use of Clause Connectives /
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Chapter Five Grammaticalization of Clause Connectives /
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Chapter Six Clauses of Necessity /
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Chapter Seven The Lack of Counterfactuals /
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Chapter Eight Indirect Adverbial Clauses /
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Chapter Nine The Uses of Rúguǒ Shuō [CHINESE TEXT] /
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Chapter Ten The Use of Clause-Final Shí [CHINESE TEXT] /
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Appendix A List of Clause Connectives /
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Appendix B Nàme [CHINESE TEXT] vs. Suǒyǐ [CHINESE TEXT] /
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Primary Sources /
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Secondary Sources /
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Journals /
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Index /
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Sinica Leidensia /
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Clause Combination in Chinese Leiden : BRILL, 1994 ISBN 9789004101463
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004482739
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