The Evolution of Chinese Grammar
- Author: Yuzhi Shi, National University of Singapore
- Date Published: March 2023
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108844055
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The Chinese language has the longest well-documented history among all human languages, making it an invaluable resource for studying how languages develop and change through time. Based on a twenty-year long research project, this pioneering book is the English version of an award-winning study originally published in Chinese. It provides an evolutionary perspective on the history of Chinese grammar, tracing its development from its thirteenth-Century BC origins to the present day. It investigates all the major changes in the history of the language within contemporary linguistic frameworks, and illustrates these with a wide range of examples taken from every stage in the language's development, showing how the author's findings are relevant to contemporary descriptive, theoretical, and historical linguistics. Shedding light on the essential properties of Chinese and, ultimately, language in general, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students of Asian linguistics, historical linguistics and syntactic theory.
Read more- The first book in English to cover all major developments of the 3,300-year history of Chinese, the longest continually documented language among all human languages
- Provides a systematic study of the motivations, mechanisms and regularities in the evolutionary history of Chinese grammar
- Employs the theories of cognitive linguistics, linguistic typology, and functional linguistics, showing how useful different theories are in historical investigation of a language
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- Date Published: March 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108844055
- length: 500 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 155 x 37 mm
- weight: 1.07kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
Conventions used in the examples
Abbreviations and symbols
1. Some preliminaries
2. Copular word and construction
3. Focus and wh-word
4. Serial verb construction
5. Disyllabification
6. Resultative construction
7. Information structure
8. Passive construction
9. Disposal construction
10. Verb copying and reduplication
11. Comparative construction
12. Ditransitive construction
Aspect and tense
14. Negotiation
15. Boundedness of predicate
16. Classifier
17. Demonstratives from classifiers
18. Distal demonstratives from phonological derivation
19. Pronouns, plurals and diminutives
20. Structural particles
21. Word order and relative clause
22. Conclusions.
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