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Book Synopsis On the Mandarin Chinese Middle Construction by : Yang Ku
Download or read book On the Mandarin Chinese Middle Construction written by Yang Ku and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese by : Xiaoling He
Download or read book Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese written by Xiaoling He and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Chinese Middle Constructions by : Jiajuan Xiong
Download or read book Chinese Middle Constructions written by Jiajuan Xiong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one. This working definition sets “middle construction” apart from “middle voice” in that it can be instantiated by various constructions in Chinese. By scrutinizing these constructions in the framework of Generative Syntax, the book concludes that their formation takes place at the lexical level, without resorting to any syntactic mechanisms and thus that Chinese falls into the category of “lexical middle languages”, which are in contrast to “syntactic middle languages”.
Download or read book The Mandarin VP written by Rint Sybesma and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mandarin VP deals with a number of constructions in Mandarin Chinese which involve the main verb and the material following it, like the object NPs, resultative phrases, durative expressions and other elements. The basis claim defended in this book is that all elements that follow the main verb in a Mandarin sentence form one single constituent which functions as the complement of the verb. The Mandarin VP offers new and original analyses of such hot issues as resultative constructions, the ba-construction and verb-le. In addition, the conclusions drawn from the research into Mandarin syntax are discussed in more general theoretic terms, which leads to original proposals regarding the internal make-up of accomplishments and the status of Theta Theory. The research reported on in this book was concluded within the bounds of mainstream generative theorizing. The Mandarin VP is of interest to all syntacticians, especially those interested in Chinese.
Book Synopsis The Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Ba-construction by : Rueih-Lirng Sharon Fahn
Download or read book The Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Ba-construction written by Rueih-Lirng Sharon Fahn and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bǎ Construction in Mandarin Chinese by : Ching-hsien Ho
Download or read book The Bǎ Construction in Mandarin Chinese written by Ching-hsien Ho and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mandarin Chinese written by Charles N. Li and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-04-20 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Primer in the Mandarin Dialect by : China Inland Mission
Download or read book A Primer in the Mandarin Dialect written by China Inland Mission and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chinese Middle Cosntructions [I.E. Constructions] by : Jiajuan Xiong
Download or read book Chinese Middle Cosntructions [I.E. Constructions] written by Jiajuan Xiong and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Chinese Middle Cosntructions [i.e. Constructions]: Lexical Middle Formation" by Jiajuan, Xiong, 熊佳娟, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: This dissertation is an exploration of Chinese middle constructions, which starts with distinguishing the middle construction from the middle voice, considering that these two terms have long been used interchangeably with different connotations. Consequently, middle data presented in the literature vary tremendously, both intra-linguistically and inter-linguistically. In order to delineate a clear boundary for the middle construction, this study defines it as a generic semantic category with the obligatory non-realization of a verb's highest argument. By contrast, the middle voice is a morphological category with various syntactic and semantic features. Starting from the working definition arrived at, the study identifies several middle constructions, viz., the qilai middle, the hao middle, the rongyi/nan middle, the de middle (and the te middles in Chengdu Chinese), the bu middle and transitive middles. Most of these middle constructions come with middle markers, though these are both morphologically and syntactically diversified. In the case of transitive middles, middle formation depends on an idiosyncratic argument realization of a small group of verbs and does not include markers. In this sense, the presence of middle markers is not a design feature of Chinese middles. Moreover, the occurrence of the identified middle markers does not necessarily lead to a middle analysis, because they can also mark other constructions, e.g., the qilai unaccusative construction, the rongyi/nan tough construction, and the de-resultative unaccusative construction. Syntax-wise, Chinese middles can have both complex predicates (e.g., [V-qilai AP] and [rongyi/nan V]) and simple predicates (e.g., hao-V, V-de-A, V-bu-A, V-te-A, V-te), both of which are proved to be unergative in nature. Consequently, these middle constructions are collectively termed "unergative middles," which stand in contrast with "transitive middles" in terms of transitivity. However, "unergative middles" and "transitive middles" share one property: they do not involve any movement mechanisms. Therefore, both of them are subsumed under the rubric of "lexical middles," which in addition exhibit the cross-linguistic lexical middle properties proposed by both Marelj (2004) and Lekakou (2005). This study is the first to adopt a parametric approach to Chinese middle constructions. It adds Chinese to languages like English, Dutch and German on the list of lexical middle languages, to be distinguished from syntactic middle languages like French, Italian, Portuguese, and Serbian/Croatian. DOI: 10.5353/th_b5016248 Subjects: Chinese language - Syntax Chinese language - Voice Chinese language - Semantics Chinese language - Verb
Book Synopsis Resultative Constructions in Mandarin Chinese from the Perspective of Construction Grammar by : Shuo Yu
Download or read book Resultative Constructions in Mandarin Chinese from the Perspective of Construction Grammar written by Shuo Yu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Chauncey Cheng-hsi Chu Publisher :Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN 13 : Total Pages :310 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (321 download)
Book Synopsis A Reference Grammar of Mandarin Chinese for English Speakers by : Chauncey Cheng-hsi Chu
Download or read book A Reference Grammar of Mandarin Chinese for English Speakers written by Chauncey Cheng-hsi Chu and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1984 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference grammar provides a description of Mandarin Chinese in familiar terms and enables the English-speaking reader to transfer his/her knowledge of English to the study of Chinese. Many of the unique features of the language are treated through a comparison with semantically corresponding, though syntactically different, features in English. Aside from the conventional types of sentences, special constructions are amply explained and illustrated for the reader. Understanding the specific meaning of each of these constructions is one of the central themes of the grammar. This book contains a number of original analyses, such as that of the -shi---de- construction and the notion of continuum for the indiscrete nature of linguistic structure, which should serve as a valuable reference source for both the language teacher and the profession of Chinese linguistics."
Book Synopsis A Non-uniform Analysis of the Passive Construction in Mandarin Chinese by : Jen Ting
Download or read book A Non-uniform Analysis of the Passive Construction in Mandarin Chinese written by Jen Ting and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On the Verb-copying Construction in Mandarin Chinese by : Xianmin Liu
Download or read book On the Verb-copying Construction in Mandarin Chinese written by Xianmin Liu and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Subject Function and Double Subject Construction in Mandarin Chinese by : Jiaxuan Shen
Download or read book Subject Function and Double Subject Construction in Mandarin Chinese written by Jiaxuan Shen and published by . This book was released on 1987* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Verb-verb Construction in Mandarin Chinese by : Hsiao Tung Lu
Download or read book The Verb-verb Construction in Mandarin Chinese written by Hsiao Tung Lu and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Comprehensive Analysis of the Ba-construction in Mandarin Chinese by : Xiaofeng Chang
Download or read book A Comprehensive Analysis of the Ba-construction in Mandarin Chinese written by Xiaofeng Chang and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Transformational Approach to V-V Constructions in Mandarin Chinese by : Jane Pao-chen Yang
Download or read book A Transformational Approach to V-V Constructions in Mandarin Chinese written by Jane Pao-chen Yang and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: