Grammaticalization And Lexicalization In Chinese

Author : Alain Peyraube,Thekla Wiebusch
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Janet Zhiqun Xing
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : 43,9 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 : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 41,7 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."--

Author : Janet Zhiqun Xing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Yuzhi Shi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : 405 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110641288

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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.

Author : Jerome L. Packard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781139431668

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The Morphology of Chinese by Jerome L. Packard Pdf

This ground breaking study dispels the common belief that Chinese 'doesn't have words' but instead 'has characters'. Jerome Packard's book provides a comprehensive discussion of the linguistic and cognitive nature of Chinese words. It shows that Chinese, far from being 'morphologically impoverished', has a different morphological system because it selects different 'settings' on parameters shared by all languages. The analysis of Chinese word formation therefore enhances our understanding of word universals. Packard describes the intimate relationship between words and their components, including how the identities of Chinese morphemes are word-driven, and offers new insights into the evolution of morphemes based on Chinese data. Models are offered for how Chinese words are stored in the mental lexicon and processed in natural speech, showing that much of what native speakers know about words occurs innately in the form of a hard-wired, specifically linguistic 'program' in the brain.

Author : Zhengdao Ye
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811609244

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The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies by Zhengdao Ye Pdf

This new major reference work provides a comprehensive overview of linguistic phenomena in a variety of Sinitic languages in a global context, highlighting the dynamic interaction between these languages and English. This “living reference work” offers a window into the linguistic sphere in China and beyond, and showcases the latest research into diverse and evolving linguistic phenomena that have resulted from intensified interactions between the Sinophone world and other lingua-spheres. The Handbook is divided into five sections. The chapters in Section I (New Research Trends in Chinese Linguistic Research) present fast-growing research areas in Chinese linguistics, particularly those undertaken by scholars based in China. Section II (Interactions of Sinitic Languages) focuses on language-contact situations inside and outside China. The chapters in Section III (Meaning, Culture, Translation) explore the meanings of key cultural concepts, and how ideas move between Chinese and English through translation across various genres. Section IV (New Trends in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) covers new ideas and practices relating to teaching the Chinese language and culture. The final section, Section V (Transference from Chinese to English), explores dynamic interactions between varieties of Chinese and varieties of English, as they play out in multilingual sites and settings

Author : Yunfang Wu,Jia-Fei Hong,Qi Su
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 3319735748

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Chinese Lexical Semantics by Yunfang Wu,Jia-Fei Hong,Qi Su Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2017, held in Leshan, China, in May 2017. The 48 full papers and 5 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: lexical semantics; applications of natural language processing; lexical resources; and corpus linguistics.

Author : Sin-Wai Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317382492

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language by Sin-Wai Chan Pdf

The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is an invaluable resource for language learners and linguists of Chinese worldwide, those interested readers of Chinese literature and cultures, and scholars in Chinese studies. Featuring the research on the changing landscape of the Chinese language by a number of eminent academics in the field, this volume will meet the academic, linguistic and pedagogical needs of anyone interested in the Chinese language: from Sinologists to Chinese linguists, as well as teachers and learners of Chinese as a second language. The encyclopedia explores a range of topics: from research on oracle bone and bronze inscriptions, to Chinese language acquisition, to the language of the mass media. This reference offers a guide to shifts over time in thinking about the Chinese language as well as providing an overview of contemporary themes, debates and research interests. The editors and contributors are assisted by an editorial board comprised of the best and most experienced sinologists world-wide. The reference includes an introduction, written by the editor, which places the assembled texts in their historical and intellectual context. The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research resource.

Author : Tian Qiao Lu
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781599429717

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A Grammar of Maonan by Tian Qiao Lu Pdf

Maonan is a Kam-Tai (Tai-Kadai) language spoken by 75,000 people in the border area of Guangxi and Guizhou provinces of China. This grammar book is the first volume to account for the phonology, word-formation, syntax, grammaticalization and lexicalization patterns of Maonan from a typological and ethno-linguistic perspective. It renders a comprehensive description of Maonan with analysis of the neutralization of semantic macroroles and the dialectic interrelations between subject and topic. Particular attention is paid to the interplay between syntactic and semantic valencies.The detailed analysis of the Maonan aspects is also unprecedented. It examines Maonan tone sandhi from a totally new approach. The book also gives a full description of the clause final particles of Maonan.

Author : Yunfang Wu,Jia-Fei Hong,Qi Su
Publisher : Springer
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319735733

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Chinese Lexical Semantics by Yunfang Wu,Jia-Fei Hong,Qi Su Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2017, held in Leshan, China, in May 2017. The 48 full papers and 5 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: lexical semantics; applications of natural language processing; lexical resources; and corpus linguistics.

Author : Yongping Zhu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 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