Nouns and Verbs in Chinese I - Facts and Theories

As the first volume of a two-volume set that reexamines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book proposes the verbs-as-nouns theory, corroborated by discussions of the nature and relationship between nouns and verbs in Chinese.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Between Discarding and Recovering  2. Breaking with Earlier Assumptions  3. The Problems  4. The Verbs-as-Nouns Framework in Chinese  5. Realizational Relations and Constitutive Relations  6. The Asymmetry Between Nouns and Verbs  7. The Referentiality of Predicates

About the author

Shen Jiaxuan is Professor of Linguistics at Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His main research interests include contrastive studies between Chinese and English and grammatical theories.

Product details

• Authors: Shen Jiaxuan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032480886
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3248088-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Chinese Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Chinese, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics