Chinese grammar at work
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Chinese grammar at work
（Studies in Chinese language and discourse, v. 1）
John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2013
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Chinese Grammar at Work adopts a cognitive-functional approach and uses a corpus-based methodology to examine how Chinese syntax emerges from natural discourse context and what the evolving grammar at work looks like. In this volume the author weaves together an array of fresh perspectives on clause structure, constructions, interactional linguistics, cognitive science and complex dynamic systems to construct a grammar of spoken Chinese. The volume contains discussions of a large number of topics: contiguity relation, the roles of repair strategies in the shaping of constituent structure, non-canonical word order constructions, pragmatics of referring expressions, classifier constructions, noun-modifying constructions, verb complementation, ethnotheory of the person and constructions specific to the language of emotion, sequential sensitivity of linguistic materials, meaning potential in interaction, the nature of variability and stability in Chinese syntax from the perspective of complexity theory. The result is a volume that highlights the connections between language structure, situated and embodied nature of cognition and language use, and affords a true entree to the exciting realm of Chinese grammar.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. Abbreviations
- 3. Chapter 1. Introduction
- 4. Chapter 2. The dynamics of the clausal structure
- 5. Chapter 3. Constituency and patterns of syntactic contiguity
- 6. Chapter 4. Pragmatics of word order
- 7. Chapter 5. Referring expressions
- 8. Chapter 6. Classifiers and classifier constructions
- 9. Chapter 7. Noun-modifying constructions
- 10. Chapter 8. Complementation constructions
- 11. Chapter 9. Some more constructions in Chinese
- 12. Chapter 10. The left and right peripheries in the clause and sequence structure
- 13. Chapter 11. Projection and repair
- 14. Chapter 12. Grammar, construction and social action
- 15. Chapter 13. Meaning in interaction
- 16. Chapter 14. Language, cognition and the complexity turn in grammatical research
- 17. Reference
- 18. Index
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