A research on functional grammar of Chinese. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bojiang Zhang, Mei Fang.
• Authors: Zhang, Bojiang; Fang, Mei
• Contents: Volume I List of figures List of tables List of abbreviations Introduction: corpus and approach PART I Information structure 1 Thematic structure of spoken Pekingese 2 Thematic structure in narration: sentence-middle modal particles 3 Thematic structure in conversation: an analysis of translocation PART II Focus structure 4 Word order: object vs. directional complement 5 Word order: object vs. verbal classifier 6 Means for contrastive focus representation PART III Backgrounding constructions 7 A transitivity interpretation of serial verb constructions in Chinese 8 Imperfective clause "V着" 9 Zero cataphora of clause subject Bibliography Index Volume II List of figures List of tables List of abbreviations PART I Reference 1 Chinese nouns and non-referential expression 2 Referential vs. non-referential: the possessive construction 3 Indefinite objects in bǎ -sentences 4 Functional extension of the reference category PART II Grammatical categories 5 Space and time: cognitive basis and functional shifting of word classes 6 Rhetorical conversion and grammatical conversion 7 Scope and hierarchies of qualitative adjectives 8 Predicate adjectives in modern Chinese 9 Grammaticalization of the tentative category Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 495.15; Chinese language -- Grammar
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000026481
• Related ISBNs: 9781000026375; 9781000026474
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