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Author Huang, C. T. James

Title The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
Published Hoboken : Wiley, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (679 pages)
Series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.
Contents Cover; Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Part I: Syntax, Semantics, and Morphology; 1: Morphology; 1 Introduction; 2 Affixes in Chinese; 2.1 Inflectional affixes; 2.2 Derivational affixes; 2.3 On bound roots and derivational affixes; 3 Compounds in Chinese; 3.1 Types of compounds; 3.2 Heads of compounds; 4 More on V-O compounds: Syntax or morphology?; 4.1 V-O compounds and lexicalization: Huang (1984); 4.2 Challenges from the morphological point of view; 5 Conclusion; References
2: Classifiers1 Introduction; 2 Cognitive-descriptive perspective; 2.1 Function of classifiers; 2.2 Measure words and classifiers; 2.3 Lexical taxonomy and categorization; 2.4 On the meaning of classifiers; 3 Morphology; 4 Acquisition; 5 Conclusion; References; 3: Adverbial Adjuncts in Mandarin Chinese; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Adverbial adjuncts in Mandarin; 1.2 Questions and theories; 2 Pre-verbal adverbials; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 Manner and degree adverbials; 2.3 PP/DP adverbials; 2.4 Subject-oriented adverbials; 2.5 Functional adverbials; 2.6 Speaker-oriented adverbs; 2.7 Alternative orders
3 Post-verbal adverbials3.1 Introduction; 3.2 DES; 3.3 Post-verbal duration and frequency expressions; 4 Two theories; 5 Concluding remarks; References; 4: Light Verbs; 1 Introduction; 2 The light verb syntax of Mandarin Chinese; 2.1 Unselectiveness of subject and object in Mandarin Chinese sentences; 2.2 Parameterization of light verb syntax; 3 Some extensions; 3.1 The affectedness constructions; 3.2 Locative subjects; 4 Alternative theories of light verbs in Chinese; 4.1 Light verbs and aspectual agreement; 4.2 The "no light verb" proposal; 4.3 A Distributed Morphology perspective
5 ConclusionReferences; 5: Topic and Focus; 1 Introduction; 2 Topic; 2.1 Grammatical topic vs. dangling topic; 2.2 Movement and base-generation; 2.3 Hanging topics and left dislocated topics?; 3 Focus and focus constructions; 3.1 Shi ... (de); 3.2 Lian ... dou/ye; 4 Topic, focus, and contrast; 4.1 Left-peripheral contrastive topic; 4.2 Clause-initial lian-DP; 4.3 VP peripheral object; 5 Summary; References; 6: Aspect; 1 Introduction; 2 Viewpoint aspect; 2.1 The syntax of viewpoint aspect; 2.2 Syntax and aspectual meanings; 3 Situation aspect
3.1 Aspectual situation types in Mandarin Chinese3.2 The representation of situation aspect/event structure; 4 Aspect and tense in Chinese; 5 Conclusion; References; 7: Sentence-Final Particles; 1 Introduction; 2 Common properties of Chinese SFPs; 3 SFPs and the structure of the C-domain in Chinese; 4 Issues in the syntactic derivation of SFPs; 4.1 Markers of negation functioning as question particles; 4.2 The origin and grammaticalization of SFPs: a study of Taiwanese kong; 4.3 SFPs and a locality effect: Lin (2010); 4.4 The Dislocation Focus Construction and SFPs: Cheung (2009)
Summary The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics presents critical overviews of a wide range of major topics in Chinese linguistics, and is the first book to introduce Chinese linguistics from the perspective of modern theoretical and formal linguistics. Offers readers a balanced and accessible introduction to some of the most important results of research into Chinese linguistics carried out by theoretical linguists during the last thirty yearsTopics covered include, among others, syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, language acquisition, historical linguistics, and psyc
Notes 4.5 Revisiting sequences of SFPs
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Subject Chinese language -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Chinese language
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
Author Li, Y. H. Audrey
Simpson, Andrew
ISBN 9781118584385
1118584384