Grammaticalization and language change in Chinese : : a formal view / / Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu.
This innovative study on the phenomenon of 'grammaticalization' and its manifestation in Chinese provides new insights into language change in Chinese and a large number of grammatical topics. Grammaticalization occurs in all of the world's languages. Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu demonstrates gener...
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| Superior document: | RoutledgeCurzon Asian linguistics series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | [Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | RoutledgeCurzon Asian linguistics series.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 325 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction and overview
- 2. The classifier ge: movement and reanalysis
- 3. Relative clause de: directionality, clausal raising and sentence-final particles
- 4. De in focus sentences: from D to T
- 5. Resultative constructions: directionality and reanalysis
- 6. Verbal -le: aspect and tense
- 7. Post-word
- Bibliography
- Index.