Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation - Perspectives From East Asian Languages

This book shows how the study of formal structures and functional morphemes in East Asian languages adds much to our general understanding of the close connection between form and interpretation.

List of contents

Part I: Functional Structure and Processes of Interpretatio in the DP/NP
Part II: Grammaticalization and the Diachronic Development of Functional Structure
Part III: Clause Level Structures: Processes of Interpretation and Principles of Organization

About the author

Yen-hui Audrey Li is Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the comparison of grammatical properties in English, Chinese and other East Asian languages. Recent work has considered issues of order and constituency, scope interaction of quantificational expressions, as well as the distribution, structure and interpretation of different types of nominal expressions and relative constructions.
Andrew Simpson is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research interests centre on the comparative syntax of East and Southeast Asian languages, and his work addresses issues relating to processes of language change, DP-structure, the syntax of question formation and the interaction of syntax with phonology.

Summary

This book shows how the study of formal structures and functional morphemes in East Asian languages adds much to our general understanding of the close connection between form and interpretation.

Additional text

'This is a very stimulating text for anyone interested in the form of syntactic structures' - Cahiers de Linguistique

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Yen-Hui Simpson
• Assisted by: Andrew Simpson (Editor), Audrey-Li Yen-hui (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781138380226
• ISBN: 978-1-138-38022-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Regional / International studies, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Literature: history and criticism, Historical and comparative linguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General