| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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Preface; Contributors; 1. On Syntactic Analyticity and Parametric Theory; Part One THE NOMINAL DOMAIN; 2. A Parametric Analysis of Nominal Arguments in Classifier Languages; 3. Appositives in Mandarin Chinese and Cross-Linguistically; 4. Restricting Non-restrictive Relatives in Mandarin Chinese; 5. The same Difference: Comparative Syntax-Semantics of English same and Chinese tong/xiang-tong; 6. How Universal is the Mass/Count Distinction? Three Grammars of Counting; Part Two THE PREDICATE DOMAIN; 7. Analysis versus Synthesis: Objects; 8. Transitive Psych-Predicates |
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9. Light-Verb Syntax Between English and Classical Chinese10. Selection and Incorporation in Complex Predicate Formation; 11. Agents in Mandarin and Igbo Resultatives; 12. Verbal Answers to Yes/No Questions, Focus, and Ellipsis; 13. On the Internal Structure of Comparative Constructions: From Chinese and Japanese to English; 14. Root Infinitive Analogues in Chinese and Japanese and the Emergence of Full Syntactic Structure; Part Three THE C-DOMAIN; 15. Wh-adjuncts, Left Periphery, and Wh-in-situ; 16. Cartographic Syntax of Pragmatic Projections; Index |
| Summary |
"Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective collects twelve new papers that explore the syntax of Chinese in comparison with other languages." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Chinese language -- Syntax
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Chinese language -- Grammar, Comparative
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Chinese language -- Comparison
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Chinese language -- Foreign elements
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Chinese language -- Influence on foreign languages
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Comparative linguistics.
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Chinese language -- Foreign elements
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Chinese language -- Grammar, Comparative
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Chinese language -- Influence on foreign languages
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Chinese language -- Syntax
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Comparative linguistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Li, Yen-hui Audrey, 1954-
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Simpson, Andrew, 1962-
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Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan, 1964-
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| ISBN |
9780190201104 |
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019020110X |
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0199945667 |
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9780199945665 |
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