Grammaticalization And Language Change In Chinese

Author : Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134307265

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Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese by Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu Pdf

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.

Author : Chaofen Sun
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0804724180

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Word-Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese by Chaofen Sun Pdf

The goal of this pioneering work is to make available to Chinese linguists, as well as linguists in general, the results of the most recent research - not only the author's but that of scholars all over the world - on two of the most discussed topics in the history of Chinese: word-order change and grammaticalization.

Author : Janet Zhiqun Xing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : UOM:39015056684700

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Grammaticalization of Verbs in Mandarin Chinese by Janet Zhiqun Xing Pdf

Author : Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134307272

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Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese by Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu Pdf

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.

Author : Janet Zhiqun Xing
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110253009

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Newest Trends in the Study of Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese by Janet Zhiqun Xing Pdf

Grammaticalization and lexicalization have been two major issues in the study of diachronic change in the past few decades. Drawing evidence from Western languages, researchers have uncovered a number of characteristics of the process of grammaticalization and lexicalization, as well as the relationship between the two. However, the question remains whether or not those characteristics are applicable to genetically unrelated and typologically different languages, such as Chinese. The contributors of this volume attempt to answer just this question. Based on Chinese historical data from the past three thousand years, five articles in the volume investigate the development of a certain grammatical category: the definite article (M. Fang), modal verbs of volition (A. Peyraube and M. Li), the classifier class (J.Z. Xing), the repeater class (C. Zhang), and the process of lexicalization (X. Dong), while the remaining four articles are case studies of unique grammatical words which have all undergone a complicated process of grammaticalization and some involved lexicalization: the sentence particle ye (Q. Chen), the versatile directional verb lái (C. Liu), the degree adverb hen (M. Liu and C. Chang), and the giving verb gei (F. Tsao). All these studies have identified tendencies of diachronic change in Chinese and some of them have also revealed certain typological characteristics that Chinese has compared to other languages.

Author : Guangshun Cao,Hsiao-jung Yu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110612981

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Language Contact and Change in Chinese by Guangshun Cao,Hsiao-jung Yu Pdf

The book sheds light on the fascinating evolution of contact-induced grammatical features in Chinese syntax. For more than two thousand years, Chinese has been in large scale language contact with languages such as Sanskrit, Mongolian, and Manchurian. Originally published in Chinese in renowned academic journals, the contributions are made available for the first time to the English speaking world.

Author : Yongping Zhu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 0773414703

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Linguistic Analysis of Meaning and Syntactic Change in the Grammaticalization of Chinese Prepositions by Yongping Zhu Pdf

Linguistic Analysis of Meaning and Syntactic Change in the Grammaticalization of Chinese Prepositions : Charting the Constraints of Locality on Language Development Through Three Millennia of Chinese Documents

Author : Yang Huang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793630100

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The Changing Languages of Guangxi, Southern China by Yang Huang Pdf

"By examining the development of "finish" morphemes in Sinitic and Zhuang Tai-Kadai through the interplay between grammaticalization and language contact, this book argues that Central Southern Guangxi constitutes a unique micro-linguistic area"--

Author : Alain Peyraube,Thekla Wiebusch
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110714868

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Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese by Alain Peyraube,Thekla Wiebusch Pdf

The Series Trends in Chinese Linguistics is initiated by De Gruyter Mouton in cooperation with Commercial Press to make outstanding Chinese papers translated into English available to the international research community. All the papers are selected carefully from the most recent issues of highly-ranked Chinese journals. The series focuses on core areas of Chinese linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. It is a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, and it integrates the research on Sinitic languages and other languages of China in the typological scholarship on language diversity, language convergence and language development. The topical books in the series reflect strong research trends currently relevant to linguists in China.

Author : Sylvie Hancil,Tine Breban,José Vicente Lozano
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263438

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New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change by Sylvie Hancil,Tine Breban,José Vicente Lozano Pdf

The chapters in this volume present a state of the art of grammaticalization research in the 2010s. They are concerned with the application of new models, such as constructionalization, the ongoing debate about the status and modelling of the development of discourse markers, and reveal a renewed interest in the typological application of grammaticalization and in the cognitive motivations for unidirectionality. The contributors consider data from a wide range of languages, including several that have not or marginally been looked at in terms of grammaticalization: Chinese, Dutch, (varieties of) English, French, German, Japanese, Maltese, Old Saxon, Spanish, and languages of the South Caucasian and Zhuang Tai-Kadai families. The chapters range from theoretical discussions to fine-grained analyses of new historical and comparative language data. This volume will be of interest to linguists studying morphosyntactic changes in a range of languages, and in particular to those interested in models for grammatical change.

Author : Andy Chi-on Chin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257802

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Cantonese GIVE and Double-Object Construction by Andy Chi-on Chin Pdf

GIVE is a versatile morpheme in many languages. While there have been extensive studies on the interplay between the syntax and semantics of GIVE in many languages, not much has been done in a similar manner on Cantonese, a member of the Yue dialect group of the Chinese language family. This monograph reports on the study of GIVE and its associated functions and syntactic constructions in Cantonese from diachronic, synchronic, and typological perspectives. Drawing on cross-linguistic data, and 19th century Cantonese dialect materials, this study first traces the chronological development of the various functions played by GIVE in Cantonese. It then examines the double-object construction. Besides the typological features of this construction in Cantonese, this study investigates the use of the northern pattern in Cantonese as a result of the increasing influence of Putonghua and Modern Standard Chinese by means of a sociolinguistic survey with 40 native speakers of Cantonese.

Author : Dan Xu,Xu Dan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199297566

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Typological Change in Chinese Syntax by Dan Xu,Xu Dan Pdf

This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a 'mixed' language. It shows that, though its dominant word order was subject-verb-object, this coexisted with subject-object-verb. Professor Xu demonstrates that Old Chinese was not the analytic language it has usually been assumed to be, and that it employed morphological and lexical devices as well as syntactic means. She describes the typological changes that have taken place sincethe Han period and shows how Chinese evolved into a more analytic language, supporting her exposition with abundant examples. She draws where possible on archaeological findings in order to distinguish between versions of texts transmitted and sometimes modified through the hands of generations ofcopyists.The author focusses on syntactic issues, including word order, verbs, causative structures, resultative compounds, and negation, but also pays close attention to what she demonstrates are closely related changes in phonology and the writing system.The book will interest scholars and graduate students of Chinese linguistics, philology, classical literature as well as general linguists interested in word-order typology and language universals. It may be also be used as a text for advanced courses in Classical Chinese and Chinese diachronic syntax.

Author : T. E. McAuley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136844614

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Language Change in East Asia by T. E. McAuley Pdf

This book adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, within the specific topic area of language change. It contains sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology and deals with all three major languages of East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Individual chapters cover pre-Sino-Japanese phonology, nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin; changes in Korean honorifics; the tense and aspect system of Japanese; and language policy in Japan. The book will be of interest to linguists working on East Asian languages, and will be of value to a range of general linguists working in comparative or historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, language typology and language contact.

Author : Yuzhi Shi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027230625

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The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar by Yuzhi Shi Pdf

This book investigates historical motivations for the emergence of the resultative construction in Chinese from the following four aspects: (a) disyllabification, (b)adjacent context, (c) semantic integrity, and (d) frequency of co-occurence of a pair of verb and resultative. The author also addresses a series of grammatical changes and innovations caused by the formation of this resultative construction, such as the development of aspect, mood, verb reduplication, the new predicate structure, the disposal construction, the passive construction, the verb copying construction, and the new topicalization construction, all of which together shape the grammatical system of Modern Chinese. The present analysis raises and discusses a number of theoretical issues that are meaningful to various linguistic disciplines like pragmatics, discourse analysis, grammaticalization, and general historical linguistics.

Author : Janet Zhiqun Xing
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110637427

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A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization by Janet Zhiqun Xing Pdf

"Based on comparative analyses of diachronic data, the articles in this volume address both theoretical and methodological issues in the study of grammaticalization and lexicalization in both Eastern and Western languages. The central question raised and discussed in this volume is how, if any, typological properties of the two genetically unrelated language families interact with the processes of grammaticalization and lexicalization."--