312 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
312 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
312 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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As the first volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book proposes the verbs-as-nouns theory, corroborated by discussions of the nature and relationship between nouns and verbs in Chinese.
Seeking to break free from the shackles of Western linguistic paradigms largely based on Indo-European languages and to a great extent inappropriate for Chinese, this... Read more
1. Introduction: Between Discarding and Recovering 2. Breaking with Earlier Assumptions 3. The Problems 4. The Verbs-as-Nouns Framework in Chinese 5. Realizational Relations and Constitutive Relations 6. The Asymmetry Between Nouns and Verbs 7. The Referentiality of Predicates
Biography
Shen Jiaxuan is Professor of Linguistics at Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His main research interests include contrastive studies between Chinese and English and grammatical theories.
