168 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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As the second volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book investigates a wide range of linguistic phenomena in Chinese and other languages to substantiate the verbs-as-nouns theory proposed by the author.
In an attempt to break free from the shackles of Western linguistic paradigms, which are largely based on Indo-European languages and to a great extent... Read more
1. The problematic status of complements and adverbials 2. Chinese, Tongan, and Latin 3. Shì ‘be’ and yǒu ‘have/there be’ 4. The status and functions of the monosyllabic-disyllabic opposition 5. Markedness reversal and the inclusion pattern 6. Concluding remarks: Destruction and construction in grammatical studies
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.
