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  • Nouns and Verbs in Chinese I: Facts and Theories

    Nouns and Verbs in Chinese I by Jiaxuan, Shen;

    Facts and Theories

    Series: Chinese Linguistics;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 30 July 2025

    • ISBN 9781032480886
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages312 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 580 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 15 Illustrations, black & white; 15 Line drawings, black & white; 4 Tables, black & white
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    Short description:

    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.

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    Long description:

    As the first volume of a two-volume set that re-examines 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.


    Seeking to break free from the shackles of Western linguistic paradigms largely based on Indo-European languages and to a great extent inappropriate for Chinese, this two-volume study revisits the nature of nouns and verbs and relevant linguistic categories in Chinese to unravel the different relationships between nouns and verbs in Chinese, English, and other languages. It argues that Chinese nouns and verbs are related inclusively rather than in the oppositional pattern found in Indo-European languages, with verbs included in nouns as a subcategory. Preliminary to the core discussion on the verbs-as-nouns framework, the author critically engages with the issues of word classes and nominalization, as well as problems with the analysis of Chinese grammar due to the noun-verb distinction. Through linguistic comparisons, the following chapters look into noticeable differences between Chinese and English, the referential and predicative natures of nouns and verbs, the asymmetry of the two, and the referentiality of predicates in Chinese.


    The volume will be a must-read for linguists and students studying Chinese linguistics, Chinese grammar, and contrastive linguistics.

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    Table 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

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