Format:
1 online resource (346 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203420645
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics Ser
Content:
This innovative study on the phenomenon of 'grammaticalization' and its manifestation in Chinese provides new insights into language change in Chinese and a large number of grammatical topics. Grammaticalization occurs in all of the world's languages. Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu demonstrates general linguistic principles present and active in the phenomenon of grammaticalization whilst also describing the modelling of language in formal theoretical approaches to syntax; so this book fills two major gaps in the current study of linguistics. Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese illuminates how studies of language development and change provide special insights into the understanding of current, synchronic systems of language. Using patters from Chinese, the author establishes cross-linguistic generalizations about language change and grammaticalization. This book should be of great interest to Chinese linguists and readers interested in language change in different languages.
Content:
Cover -- GRAMMATICALIZATION AND LANGUAGE CHANGE IN CHINESE -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.0 Overview -- 1.1 Background: Grammaticalization as an Area of Study -- 1.2 A Formal Approach to Grammaticalization -- 1.3 Patterns to Be Examined in the Work -- 2. THE CLASSIFIER GE: MOVEMENT AND REANALYSIS -- 2.0 Introduction -- 2.1 Ge as a General Classifier for Nouns -- 2.2 Ge as a Classifier for Events Denoted by the Predicates -- 2.2.1 Occurrence Between a Verb and Its Cognate Object -- 2.2.2 Occurrence Between a Verb and an Indefinite Object -- 2.2.3 Ge Introducing a Simple Resultative/Descriptive Adjective -- 2.2.4 Ge Introducing an Idiom or Fixed Expression -- 2.2.5 Ge with Perfective but not Imperfective Aspect -- 2.2.6 Apparent Constraints on Verb Selection -- 2.3 Syntactic Properties -- 2.3.1 Event Ge Introducing a Non-predicational Adjective -- 2.3.2 Event Ge Licensing an Extra Argument -- 2.3.3 Ge Licensing the Expletive 'It' -- 2.4 The Proposal Ge as a Weak Unselective Determiner in D0 -- 2.4.1 Ge as a Nominalizer -- 2.4.2 Ge as a D0 -- 2.4.3 Further Evidence -- 2.5 Grammaticalization, Reanalysis and Ge -- 2.6 Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- 3. RELATIVE CLAUSE DE: DIRECTIONALITY, CLAUSAL RAISING AND SENTENCE-FINAL PARTICLES -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 Relative Clauses in Government and Binding Theory -- 3.1.1 Chiu (1993/1995) and SuoP -- Ning (1993) -- 3.1.2 DE as a Complementizer -- 3.2 Directionality and C-selection a Theoretical Problem for Standard Analyses -- 3.3 Kayne (1994) and a Uniform Theory of Relativization -- 3.3.1 Determiners, Demonstratives and Definiteness Agreement -- 3.3.2 Further Evidence for the NP-raising Analysis: (1) Language Acquisition: Chiu (1998) -- (2) Connectivity and Idiom-chunks -- 3.3.3 Relativization in Japanese, Murasugi (1991/1998).
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415336031
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415336031
Language:
English
