Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese - A Formal View

Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese illuminates how studies of language development and change provide special insights into the understanding of current, synchronic systems of language.

List of contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, 1. INTRODUCTION, 2. THE CLASSIFIER GE: MOVEMENT AND REANALYSIS, 3. RELATIVE CLAUSE DE: DIRECTIONALITY, CLAUSAL RAISING AND SENTENCE-FINAL PARTICLES, 4. DE IN Focus SENTENCES: FROM D TO T, 5. RESULTATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS: DIRECTIONALITY AND REANALYSIS, 6. VERBAL LE : ASPECT AND TENSE, 7. POST-WORD, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

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Wu, Xiu-Zhi Zoe

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Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese illuminates how studies of language development and change provide special insights into the understanding of current, synchronic systems of language.

Product details

• Authors: Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu, Zoe Wu (University of Southern California Xiu-Zhi, Zoe Wu (University of Southern California) Xiu-Zhi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2013
• EAN: 9780415864558
• ISBN: 978-0-415-86455-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics; Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education