Non-Finiteness - A Process-Relation Perspective

As a gateway to central questions in linguistics, non-finiteness is unavoidable in both typological studies and aspects of natural language processing, such as text segmentation and annotation. This study presents a 'process relation framework' to explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for, instances of non-finiteness in clause structure.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Non-finiteness in the literature; 3. Theoretical foundation; 4. Basic process relations as one solution to the controversy; 5. Non-finiteness as the bridge for process compression; 6. Revisiting the controversial English constructions with non-finiteness; 7. Revisiting the controversial Chinese constructions with non-finiteness; 8. Conclusion; References; Index.

About the author

Bingjun Yang is Professor in Systemic Functional Linguistics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His publications include Corpus-based Investigations into Grammar, Media and Health Discourse (Springer Nature, 2020), Language Policy (Routledge, 2017) and Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective (Springer, 2015).

Summary

As a gateway to central questions in linguistics, non-finiteness is unavoidable in both typological studies and aspects of natural language processing, such as text segmentation and annotation. This study presents a 'process relation framework' to explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for, instances of non-finiteness in clause structure.

Foreword

Presents a 'process relation framework' to explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for cases of non-finiteness in clause structure.

Product details

• Authors: Bingjun Yang, Bingjun (Shanghai Jiao Tong University Yang, Yang Bingjun
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009073691
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0907369-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Chinese, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics, Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication, Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication