Newest Trends in the Study of Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese / / ed. by Janet Zhiqun Xing.
Grammaticalization and lexicalization have been two major issues in the study of diachronic change in the past few decades. Drawing evidence from Western languages, researchers have uncovered a number of characteristics of the process of grammaticalization and lexicalization, as well as the relation...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- The development of the Chinese aspectual sentence-final marker yĕ
- The emergence of a definite article in Beijing Mandarin: The evolution of the proximal demonstrative zhè
- The grammaticalization of the directional verb ‘lái’: A construction grammar approach
- The degree-evaluative construction: Grammaticalization in constructionalization
- The semantic historical development of modal verbs of volition in Chinese
- Semantic change in the grammaticalization of classifiers in Mandarin Chinese
- The repeater in Chinese and other languages
- Lexicalization in the history of the Chinese language
- Argument structure change, reanalysis and lexicalization: Grammaticalization of transitive verbs into ditransitive verbs in Chinese, Japanese and English
- Subject index