Flexibility in the Parts-of-Speech System of Classical Chinese /

Flexibility in the Parts-of-Speech System of Classical Chinese / / Linlin Sun.

Languages across the world differ from each other in a number of respects, and one such difference is in terms of how their lexicons are categorized. Compared to most European languages with distinct, functionally dedicated word classes in the traditional sense, quite a few languages are observed to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Sun, Linlin ,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 334
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 283 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Background for studying flexibility in parts-of-speech systems
  • 3 Syntactic observations on flexibility in Classical Chinese
  • 4 Cognitive-semantic foundations of flexibility in Classical Chinese
  • 5 Pragmatics of flexibility in Classical Chinese: The level of argument structure constructions
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix I
  • Appendix II
  • Index

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