Pivotal Constructions In Chinese

Author : Rui Peng
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266057

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Pivotal Constructions in Chinese by Rui Peng Pdf

This book presents a detailed analysis of the Chinese pivotal constructions (PVCs) and their diachronic developments from a constructionalist perspective, with the focus on the growth of the constructional hierarchies of these constructions and the changes with respect to both the form and meaning properties over time. The most important enabling factor behind the diachronic developments of the PVCs has been the sanction of the new instances conflicting with the constructions’ specifications. Throughout history the PVCs have grown along the two dimensions, i.e., inclusiveness and multileveledness, leading to a steady increase in the sizes of their constructional hierarchies. The two-dimensional expansion of the PVCs’ constructional hierarchies has been accompanied by the gradual relaxation of the conditions constraining the earliest instances, on multiple schematicity levels. This book will be valuable to scholars working on diachronic construction grammar and language change as well as to those interested in the history of Chinese language.

Author : Rui Peng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127120819

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The Development of Chinese Pivotal Construction by Rui Peng Pdf

Author : Jizhu Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:19532295

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An Analytical Comparison of the Pivotal Constructions in Chinese and Their Manifestations in English by Jizhu Zhang Pdf

Author : Hongnian Zhang,Sze-yun Liu
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9622015956

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A Practical Chinese Grammar by Hongnian Zhang,Sze-yun Liu Pdf

Fifty lessons examining both structural patterns and morphological features characteristic of Mandarin Chinese. The book describes cultural idiosyncrasies in language use as well as gives discoursal strategies for forming sustained conversations.

Author : Bingjun Yang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316513415

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Non-Finiteness by Bingjun Yang Pdf

As a gateway to central questions in linguistics, non-finiteness is unavoidable in both typological studies and aspects of natural language processing, such as text segmentation and annotation. This study presents a 'process relation framework' to explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for, instances of non-finiteness in clause structure.

Author : Xiaoshi HU
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781040010099

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Locality in Grammar by Xiaoshi HU Pdf

Locality in Grammar: From Narrow Syntax to Interfaces investigates the operation of locality conditions in syntax and semantics from a cross-linguistic perspective. It is claimed that there are two different types of locality conditions. One is the Generalized Minimality Condition (GMC), and the other is the Phase Impenetrability Condition (PIC). This book demonstrates that these locality conditions play different roles in different computational components of human language, and, therefore, cannot be unified as one constraint as proposed in the literature. The main idea of the book is that the two different locality conditions are sensitive to the difference between syntactic derivation and semantic interpretation and that of overt and covert syntactic derivations. Further investigation shows a more fine-grained distinction must be made between syntactic computations. It is true that GMC does not constrain overt syntactic derivations and PIC does not play a role in semantic interpretations; however, they both regulate covert syntactic computations. This book will inform postgraduate students and scholars in the field of linguistics.

Author : Sam-po Law,Brendan Weekes,Anita M-Y. Wong
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Communicative disorders
ISBN : 9781847691156

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Language Disorders in Speakers of Chinese by Sam-po Law,Brendan Weekes,Anita M-Y. Wong Pdf

"Research interest in Chinese language impairments can be traced back to the 1930s. Despite the significant advances made in this field over the past two decades, this body of work has not received the attention it deserves. This book fills a gap in the field and represents the latest research in Chinese language disorders in children and adults. The work presented in this volume addresses theoretical and clinical issues relevant to specific language impairment in children, developmental dyslexia, phonological impairment in children and adults, and acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia. The book will appeal to interdisciplinary researchers from cognitive psychology, linguistics, and neurology with interests in the Chinese language, speech-language therapists working with Chinese-speaking clients, educationists, in particular language teachers of children learning to read and write Chinese, as well as neuroscientists. It will serve as a good reference book for advanced level undergraduate courses or graduate courses in speech/language pathologies and psycholinguistics."--Jacket.

Author : Charles N. Li,Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989-04-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0520066103

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Mandarin Chinese by Charles N. Li,Sandra A. Thompson Pdf

This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of Mandarin Chinese, the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.

Author : Xiaoling He
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262349

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Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese by Xiaoling He Pdf

As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous descriptions which were framed in terms of pre-existing grammatical notions such as ‘topicalization’, ‘passivization’ and ‘ergativization’, this book offers a fresh look at the PSC, in which its syntactic and semantic as well as its discourse functions are examined within the system of major construction-types of the language as a whole. The PSC, being low in transitivity, serves primarily the function of backgrounding in discourse. Typologically, the PSC bears a resemblance to middle constructions in Indo-European and other languages, raising interesting questions about ways to understand congruent and divergent syntactic structures across the world’s languages. This book will be of interest to students of Chinese Linguistics as well as Language Typology.

Author : Shuxiang You
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429534508

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Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect by Shuxiang You Pdf

Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect: Domains and Rule Application is the first attempt to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the Fuzhou phonological system from the perspective of prosodic phonology. It addresses the following issues: What prosodic constituents exist in the Fuzhou dialect and what kinds of roles they play in the Fuzhou phonological system; how to define the domain formation of these prosodic constituents in the Fuzhou dialect; what kinds of Fuzhou phonological phenomena make crucial reference to these prosodic constituents as the domain of application; and what implications does the study of the Fuzhou phonological system have for the prosodic phonology theory. This book is a valuable text for students and scholars in the field of Chinese dialectology, Min dialects, prosodic phonology, and phonology-morphosyntax interface.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Grammar of Spoken Chinese by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 2192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104246

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The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described and modeled by parallel structures representing different facets of linguistic organization and information, related by means of functional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I, Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntactic concepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviews LFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. Part III, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFG work on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure, and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work in the disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability, psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal and computational issues and applications, provides an overview of computational and formal properties of the theory, implementations, and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, and treebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG work on languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particular language families. The final section, Comparing LFG with other linguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to other theoretical approaches.

Author : Yan Jing Wu,Koji Miwa,Haoyun Zhang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832506202

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Cognitive factors in bilingual language processing by Yan Jing Wu,Koji Miwa,Haoyun Zhang Pdf

Author : Kay Cheng Soh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811088605

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Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore by Kay Cheng Soh Pdf

This book presents the experiences of Chinese Language researchers in Singapore to Chinese Language researchers and teachers in other countries and regions, such as the USA, the UK and Asia, that are home to a large number of learners, young and old. As such, the innovative ideas it provides can be applied in practising teachers’ classrooms to promote more effective and efficient student learning. Beyond pedagogical innovations, the book also includes papers on the assessment of Chinese Language learning and teacher literacy – two areas that have been largely neglected by the Chinese Language research and teaching communities, not only here in Singapore, but also around the world. This book, the sequel to “Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore: Retrospect and Challenges” (Springer, 2016), is future-oriented, highlighting ideas that merit further attention from researchers and practitioners alike.

Author : Yunfang Wu,Jia-Fei Hong,Qi Su
Publisher : Springer
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 52,6 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.