Formal Aspects of Chinese Grammar
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Grammar, Linguistics
| Author: | Jie Xu | ISBN: | 9789813202931 |
| Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Company | Publication: | January 11, 2017 |
| Imprint: | WSPC | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jie Xu |
| ISBN: | 9789813202931 |
| Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Company |
| Publication: | January 11, 2017 |
| Imprint: | WSPC |
| Language: | English |
This book is a collection of seven articles published in the past decade by the author. These articles are concerned with various issues including possessor raising, null subject, null object, pied-piping in logical form, focus marker, question formation, and adverbial reflexive. Each article has made a contribution to its topic. More importantly, these seven articles, taken as a whole, also constitute a window through which readers may look at the issues from a formal syntactic perspective and get a sense as how works have been conducted in the framework concerned, how arguments have been constructed, and how justifications have been provided in the field.
Contents:
- Possessor Raising in Chinese and Korean
- Two Types of Pre-Verbal Reflexives in Chinese
- The Positioning of Chinese Focus Marker SHI and Pied-Piping in Logical Form
- Two Types of Null Subject Languages
- Null Object and Its Syntactic Derivation
- The Interaction of Grammatical Features "Question" and "Focus"
- Focus-Marking in Chinese and Malay
Readership: Senior undergraduate students, graduate students pursuing master's or doctoral degrees, university lecturers and language-related professionals.
Key Features:
- A detailed analysis of a carefully selected group of important conceptions and phenomena in Chinese grammar
- All the works have been conducted in one of the mainstream frameworks of linguistic theory
- It has been done from a comparative perspective, focusing on the Chinese language and referring to comparable languages including English, Japanese, Korean, and Malay
This book is a collection of seven articles published in the past decade by the author. These articles are concerned with various issues including possessor raising, null subject, null object, pied-piping in logical form, focus marker, question formation, and adverbial reflexive. Each article has made a contribution to its topic. More importantly, these seven articles, taken as a whole, also constitute a window through which readers may look at the issues from a formal syntactic perspective and get a sense as how works have been conducted in the framework concerned, how arguments have been constructed, and how justifications have been provided in the field.
Contents:
- Possessor Raising in Chinese and Korean
- Two Types of Pre-Verbal Reflexives in Chinese
- The Positioning of Chinese Focus Marker SHI and Pied-Piping in Logical Form
- Two Types of Null Subject Languages
- Null Object and Its Syntactic Derivation
- The Interaction of Grammatical Features "Question" and "Focus"
- Focus-Marking in Chinese and Malay
Readership: Senior undergraduate students, graduate students pursuing master's or doctoral degrees, university lecturers and language-related professionals.
Key Features:
- A detailed analysis of a carefully selected group of important conceptions and phenomena in Chinese grammar
- All the works have been conducted in one of the mainstream frameworks of linguistic theory
- It has been done from a comparative perspective, focusing on the Chinese language and referring to comparable languages including English, Japanese, Korean, and Malay
