Information structure and word ordering selection
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Information structure and word ordering selection
(China perspectives series, . Research on functional grammar of Chinese ; 1)
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
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  Iwate
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  Nagasaki
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  Okinawa
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Note
Bibliography: p. [239]-253
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s.
This two-volume book is one of the earliest and most influential works to study the Chinese language using functional grammar. With local Beijing vernacular (Pekingese) as a basis, the information structure and focus structure of the Chinese language are systematically examined. By using written works and recordings from Beijingers, the authors discuss topics such as the relationship between word order and focus, and the distinction between normal focus and contrastive focus.
In addition, the authors also subject the reference and grammatical categories of the Chinese language to a functional scrutiny while discussion of word classes and their functions creatively combines modern linguistic theories and traditional Chinese linguistic theories. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese linguistics and linguistics in general.
Table of Contents
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 "
9 Zero cataphora of clause subject
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"