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Pivotal Constructions in Chinese

Author : Rui Peng
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266050
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Pivotal Constructions in Chinese written by Rui Peng and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Locality in Grammar

Author : Xiaoshi HU
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040010091
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Locality in Grammar written by Xiaoshi HU and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Non-Finiteness

Author : Bingjun Yang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316513416
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Non-Finiteness written by Bingjun Yang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Language Disorders in Speakers of Chinese

Author : Sam-po Law
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847691153
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Language Disorders in Speakers of Chinese written by Sam-po Law and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Mandarin Chinese

Author : Charles N. Li
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520066106
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (661 download)

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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 722 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.

Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese

Author : Xiaoling He
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027262349
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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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 218 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.

A Practical Chinese Grammar

Author : Hongnian Zhang
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622015951
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book A Practical Chinese Grammar written by Hongnian Zhang and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Grammar of Spoken Chinese

Author :
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Spoken Chinese written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect

Author : Shuxiang You
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429534507
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Book Synopsis Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect by : Shuxiang You

Download or read book Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect written by Shuxiang You and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961104247
Total Pages : 2192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar written by Mary Dalrymple and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 2192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Cognitive factors in bilingual language processing

Author : Yan Jing Wu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832506208
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive factors in bilingual language processing written by Yan Jing Wu and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-01-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Strategies of Politeness in the Chinese Language

Author : Kaidi Zhan
Publisher : RoutledgeCurzon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Strategies of Politeness in the Chinese Language written by Kaidi Zhan and published by RoutledgeCurzon. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore

Author : Kay Cheng Soh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811088608
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore written by Kay Cheng Soh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Data Analytics in Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Dennis Tay
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110687275
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Data Analytics in Cognitive Linguistics by : Dennis Tay

Download or read book Data Analytics in Cognitive Linguistics written by Dennis Tay and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary data analytics involves extracting insights from data and translating them into action. With its turn towards empirical methods and convergent data sources, cognitive linguistics is a fertile context for data analytics. There are key differences between data analytics and statistical analysis as typically conceived. Though the former requires the latter, it emphasizes the role of domain-specific knowledge. Statistical analysis also tends to be associated with preconceived hypotheses and controlled data. Data analytics, on the other hand, can help explore unstructured datasets and inspire emergent questions. This volume addresses two key aspects in data analytics for cognitive linguistic work. Firstly, it elaborates the bottom-up guiding role of data analytics in the research trajectory, and how it helps to formulate and refine questions. Secondly, it shows how data analytics can suggest concrete courses of research-based action, which is crucial for cognitive linguistics to be truly applied. The papers in this volume impart various data analytic methods and report empirical studies across different areas of research and application. They aim to benefit new and experienced researchers alike.

The Development of Chinese Pivotal Construction

Author : Rui Peng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of Chinese Pivotal Construction written by Rui Peng and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres

Author : Wei Wang
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260656
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres written by Wei Wang and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspirational and expanding, this book examines contemporary Chinese language and discourse across a spectrum of linguistic layers and genres in diverse social contexts. Addressing issues ranging from the usual focus on language per se, or language use in reaction to the immediate settings, to the connections between properties of texts and social practices (ideologies, stancetaking, power relations, etc.), the updated and exemplary research projects presented in the volume demonstrates a developing trajectory of research in Chinese language and discourse. With its empirical focus and stress on the role of language and discourse in social practice, this important new book discusses various language features as well as gender, stancetaking, and identity in Chinese discourse. This is a vital discussion for anyone interested in contemporary Chinese language and discourse studies. In examination of different layers of language (i.e. from lexical items and sentence structures to discourse features and discursive practices) across different genres of texts, the research projects have drawn on a variety of linguistic approaches and methodologies, including functional linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and various approaches to discourse analysis. Researchers and students of Chinese linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, translation studies, and China studies in general will find this volume an indispensable reference and an enjoyable read.

Chinese Lexical Semantics

Author : Yunfang Wu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331973573X
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Lexical Semantics written by Yunfang Wu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.