Grounding in Chinese written narrative discourse / / by Wendan Li.
In Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse Wendan Li offers a comprehensive and innovative account of how Mandarin Chinese, as a language without extensive morphological marking, highlights (or foregrounds) major events of a narrative and demotes (or backgrounds) other supporting descriptio...
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| Superior document: | Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication, Volume 32 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Utrecht studies in language and communication ;
Volume 32. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (293 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Grounding: A Literature Review
- Grammatical Features of Chinese and Previous Grounding Analysis
- At the Verb Phrase Core: Foregrounding Through Bounding
- In Single-Verb Clauses: Constituent Order and Grounding1
- In Complex Predicates: Grounding of Verb Phrases
- In Complex Sentences: Margins Versus Nucleus1
- Related Issues
- Concluding Remarks.