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A Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese book cover

1st Edition

A Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese

By Bojiang Zhang, Mei Fang
470 Pages
by Routledge

470 Pages
by Routledge

470 Pages
by Routledge
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The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s. This two-volume set is one of the earliest and most influential works to study the Chinese language using functional grammar. With local Beijing vernacular (Pekingese) as a basis, the information structure and focus structure of the Chinese language... Read more

Volume I

List of figures

List of tables

List of abbreviations

Introduction: corpus and approach

PART I

Information structure

1 Thematic structure of spoken Pekingese

2 Thematic structure in narration: sentence-middle modal particles

3 Thematic structure in conversation: an analysis of translocation

PART II

Focus structure

4 Word order: object vs. directional complement

5 Word order: object vs. verbal classifier

6 Means for contrastive focus representation

PART III

Backgrounding constructions

7 A transitivity interpretation of serial verb constructions in Chinese

8 Imperfective clause "V¿"

9 Zero cataphora of clause subject Bibliography

Index

Volume II

List of figures

List of tables

List of abbreviations

PART I

Reference

1 Chinese nouns and non-referential expression

2 Referential vs. non-referential: the possessive construction

3 Indefinite objects in ba-sentences

4 Functional extension of the reference category

PART II

Grammatical categories

5 Space and time: cognitive basis and functional shifting of word classes

6 Rhetorical conversion and grammatical conversion

7 Scope and hierarchies of qualitative adjectives

8 Predicate adjectives in modern Chinese

9 Grammaticalization of the tentative category

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Bojiang Zhang is a professor from the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of Literary Review(«¿¿¿¿»). He is also a professor at University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Fudan University and Renmin University of China. He has been working on syntactic theory, functional grammar and discourse analysis of Chinese.

Mei Fang is a professor from the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is currently the Deputy Editor-in-chief of Studies of the Chinese Language ( «¿¿¿¿») and the vice president of Chinese Language Society. She has been working on Chinese grammar and discourse analysis with the functional approach, focusing on the emergent nature of grammatical patterns, pragmaticalization, and grammar in interaction.

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