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A Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese
 
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ISBN13:9780367422684
ISBN10:0367422689
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:470 pages
Size:234x156 mm
Weight:1040 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 7 Line drawings, black & white; 26 Tables, black & white
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A Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese

 
Edition number: 1
Publisher: Routledge
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Number of Volumes: 2 pieces,
 
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Short description:

This two-volume set has become influential in its exposition of how to use functional grammar to study the Chinese language. Using local Beijing vernacular as a basis, the information structure and focus structure of the Chinese language are systematically examined while its reference and grammatical categories are subjected to critical analysis.

Long description:

The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s.


This two-volume set is one of the earliest and most influential works to study the Chinese language using functional grammar. With local Beijing vernacular (Pekingese) as a basis, the information structure and focus structure of the Chinese language are systematically examined. By using written works and recordings from Beijingers, the authors discuss topics such as the relationship between word order and focus, and the distinction between normal focus and contrastive focus.


In addition, the authors also subject the reference and grammatical categories of the Chinese language to a functional scrutiny while discussion of word classes and their functions creatively combines modern linguistic theories and traditional Chinese linguistic theories. This set will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese linguistics and linguistics in general.

Table of Contents:

Volume I


List of figures


List of tables


List of abbreviations


Introduction: corpus and approach


PART I


Information structure


1 Thematic structure of spoken Pekingese


2 Thematic structure in narration: sentence-middle modal particles


3 Thematic structure in conversation: an analysis of translocation


PART II


Focus structure


4 Word order: object vs. directional complement


5 Word order: object vs. verbal classifier


6 Means for contrastive focus representation


PART III


Backgrounding constructions


7 A transitivity interpretation of serial verb constructions in Chinese


8 Imperfective clause "V?"


9 Zero cataphora of clause subject Bibliography


Index



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Volume II


List of figures


List of tables


List of abbreviations


PART I


Reference


1 Chinese nouns and non-referential expression


2 Referential vs. non-referential: the possessive construction


3 Indefinite objects in b?-sentences


4 Functional extension of the reference category


PART II


Grammatical categories


5 Space and time: cognitive basis and functional shifting of word classes


6 Rhetorical conversion and grammatical conversion


7 Scope and hierarchies of qualitative adjectives


8 Predicate adjectives in modern Chinese


9 Grammaticalization of the tentative category


Bibliography


Index