Newest trends in the study of grammaticalization and lexicalization in Chinese
edited by Janet Zhiqun Xing.
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Berlin : : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (312 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Introduction; The development of the Chinese aspectual sentence-final marker ye; The emergence of a definite article in Beijing Mandarin: The evolution of the proximal demonstrative zhè; The grammaticalization of the directional verb 'lái': A construction grammar approach; The degree-evaluative construction: Grammaticalization in constructionalization; The semantic historical development of modal verbs of volition in Chinese; Semantic change in the grammaticalization of classifiers in Mandarin Chinese; The repeater in Chinese and other languages. - Lexicalization in the history of the Chinese languageArgument structure change, reanalysis and lexicalization: Grammaticalization of transitive verbs into ditransitive verbs in Chinese, Japanese and English; Subject index. - Based on Chinese historical data collected over the past three thousand years, the articles in the volume investigate the development of new grammatical categories and the process of lexicalization and grammaticalization of unique grammatical words. All these studies have identified tendencies of diachronic change in Chinese or typological characteristics that Chinese has compared to other languages.
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| ISBN | 3110252996. - 9783110252996
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