1st Edition
Enriched Composition and Inference in the Argument Structure of Chinese
By Ren Zhang
Copyright 2005
212 Pages
21 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
21 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
21 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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As with many other languages, Mandarin Chinese exhibits a rich variety of ways in expressing the arguments of the predicator in a sentence. Unlike other languages, such variation is typically devoid of any formal marking. Previous attempts in explaining such phenomena usually focus on the syntax as an explanatory tool. This book argues that a large majority of such argument structure phenomena are... Read more
Chapter 1: Introduction: Variation in Argument Expression Chapter 2: Constructions, Conceptual Structures and Compositionality Chapter 3: The Eat Restaurant Construction: Licensing Unselected Complements Chapter 4: Conceptual Inference and Predicate Transfer Chapter 5: Concluding Remarks References Index
Biography
Ren Zhang is a visiting professor in linguistics at the School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2002 from York University.
