Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective
Title | Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Yen-hui Audrey Li |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 461 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0199945675 |
Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective collects twelve new papers that explore the syntax of Chinese in comparison with other languages.
Grammar in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Title | Grammar in Cross-Linguistic Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Teruhiro Ishiguro |
Publisher | Linguistic Insights |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Chinese language |
ISBN | 9783039114450 |
The papers in this volume are devoted to new in-depth treatments of distinctive aspects of Chinese and Japanese syntax, semantics and pragmatics, informed by influential theoretical concepts of the day, including cognitive grammar, construction grammar, information structure, grammaticalization and linguistic typology.
New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax
Title | New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Waltraud Paul |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2014-12-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110338777 |
Mandarin Chinese has become indispensable for crosslinguistic comparison and syntactic theorizing. It is nevertheless still difficult to obtain comprehensive answers to research questions, because Chinese is often presented as an "exotic" language defying the analytical tools standardly used for other languages. This book sets out to demystify Chinese. It places controversial issues in the context of current syntactic theories and offers precise analyses based on a large array of representative data. Although the focus is on Modern Mandarin, earlier stages of Chinese are occasionally referred to in order to highlight striking continuities in its history. VO order is one such constant factor, thus invalidating the idea that Chinese went through a major word order change from OV to VO and back to OV. Another claim often made for Chinese as an isolating language, viz. the existence of an impoverished inventory of parts of speech, is likewise refuted. Other long debated issues addressed here include the relevance of the dichotomy topic vs subject prominence and the role of Chinese as a recurring exception to crosscategorial harmonies posited in typological studies.
New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax
Title | New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Waltraud Paul |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2014-12-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110393972 |
Mandarin Chinese has become indispensable for crosslinguistic comparison and syntactic theorizing. It is nevertheless still difficult to obtain comprehensive answers to research questions, because Chinese is often presented as an "exotic" language defying the analytical tools standardly used for other languages. This book sets out to demystify Chinese. It places controversial issues in the context of current syntactic theories and offers precise analyses based on a large array of representative data. Although the focus is on Modern Mandarin, earlier stages of Chinese are occasionally referred to in order to highlight striking continuities in its history. VO order is one such constant factor, thus invalidating the idea that Chinese went through a major word order change from OV to VO and back to OV. Another claim often made for Chinese as an isolating language, viz. the existence of an impoverished inventory of parts of speech, is likewise refuted. Other long debated issues addressed here include the relevance of the dichotomy topic vs subject prominence and the role of Chinese as a recurring exception to crosscategorial harmonies posited in typological studies.
Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography
Title | Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography PDF eBook |
Author | Fuzhen Si |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2021-10-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027259771 |
This book illustrates recent developments in cartographic studies, seen from a comparative perspective. The different chapters explore various aspects of theoretical and descriptive syntax, bearing on such topics as selection, causativity, binding, light verb constructions, the structure of the high and low peripheral zones. Syntactic issues in the study of dialects and ancient languages are also addressed. The languages investigated include French, Hebrew, Standard Dutch and the Ghent dialect, Etruscan, Japanese, English, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and the Teochew dialect. The intended readers of this book include researchers and students working on natural language syntax, the interface between syntax and semantics/pragmatics, and comparative and typological linguistics, as well as scholars interested in particular languages such as East Asian and Romance languages.
The Cartography of Chinese Syntax
Title | The Cartography of Chinese Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2015-08-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0190463791 |
This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that is guided by the view that syntactic structures contain grammatical and functional information that is ideal for semantic interpretation - by studying the syntactic structures of a particular language, syntacticians can better understand the semantic issues at play in that language. The chapters in this book map out the "topography" of a variety of constructions in Chinese, specifically information structure, wh-question formation, and peripheral functional elements. The syntactic structure of Chinese makes it an ideal language for this line of research, because functional elements are often spread throughout sentences rather than clumped together as is usually dictated by language-specific morphology. Mapping Chinese syntactic structures therefore offers a window into the origin of heavily "scrambled" constructions often observed in other languages. The book includes a preface that will discusses the goal of cartography and explains how the collection contributes towards our understanding of this approach to syntax. The subsequent seven original articles all contain original syntactic data that is invaluable for future research in cartography, and the collection as a whole paints a broader picture of how the alignment between syntax and semantics works in a principled way.
Prosody and Syntax
Title | Prosody and Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Yuji Kawaguchi |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 391 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027233152 |
This collection of papers is the third volume of the series Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics (UBLI), a product of the 21st Century COE Program of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). Prosody, as used in this text, appears in units larger than segments and generally refers to the field that studies various phonological properties connected to utterances involving pitch, intensity, and length. These phonetic features almost always appear within complex combinations such as word and sentence accents and intonation. The subtitle, Cross-Linguistic perspectives, does not imply mere, cross-linguistic comparison and contrast of the prosodic phenomena. Rather, it implies that there are a variety of approaches which are unique to each language for prosodic analysis. In fact, the volume consists of prosodic analyses in 12 different languages : French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Makonde, Indonesian, Tagalog and Turkish.