New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax /

New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax / / Waltraud Paul.

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Mandarin Chinese has become indispensable for crosslinguistic comparison and syntactic theorizing. It is nevertheless still difficult to obtain comprehensive answers to research questions, because Chinese is often presented as an "exotic" language defying the analytical tools standardly us...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Paul, Waltraud,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]
©2015
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 271
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Physical Description:1 online resource (357 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction: What linguists have always wanted to know about Chinese…
  • 2. SVO forever!
  • 3. Prepositions as adpositions, not V/P hybrids
  • 4. Postpositions: Double trouble
  • 5. Adjectives: Another neglected category – which turns out to be two
  • 6. The syntax and semantics of the sentence periphery (part I): What the topic is (not) about
  • 7. The syntax and semantics of the sentence periphery (part II): Why particles are not particular
  • 8. Chinese from a typological point of view: Long live disharmony!
  • References
  • Subject index

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