New Approaches to Chinese Word Formation : : Morphology, Phonology and the Lexicon in Modern and Ancient Chinese / / ed. by Jerome L. Packard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Baxter, William H.,; Chang, Claire Hsun-huei,; Dai, John Xiang-Ling,; Duanmu, San,; Feng, Shengli,; Huang, Shuanfan,; Kuiper, Koenraad,; Li, Yafei,; Ng, Siew-ai,; Packard, Jerome L.,; Ross, Claudia,; Sagart, Laurent,; Starosta, Stanley,; Wu, Zhi-qian,
• HerausgeberIn: Packard, Jerome L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 105
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (386 p.)

Table of Contents

• I-XIV
• Introduction
• Word formation in Old Chinese
• V–V compounds in Mandarin Chinese: Argument structure and semantics
• Syntactic, phonological, and morphological words in Chinese
• Wordhood in Chinese
• Prosodic structure and compound words in Classical Chinese
• Chinese as a headless language in compounding morphology
• Chinese resultative constructions and the Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis
• A Lexical Phonology of Mandarin Chinese
• Cognate objects and the realization of thematic structure in Mandarin Chinese
• On defining the Chinese compound word: Headedness in Chinese compounding and Chinese VR compounds
• Index